Assessment
Understanding the Essay Assessment Instrument
ToK assessment uses a technique called global impression marking or GIM. This may seem a little mysterious to a teacher who has been brought up on traditional analytic marking techniques. This page introduces...
Assessment
Practical things: assessment, commentaries, teacher interactions, and admin
This is a collection of pages about all the practical things of concern to the teacher about the ToK essay. We discuss the assessment instrument and what it means, we give examples of student work with...
Assessment
Essay tips 4: Referencing
Referencing is an important component of the essay and done well is a sign of a healthy respect for factual sources. Unfortunately this aspect of the essay is often neglected. Many students seem to think...
Assessment
Essay tips 3: Essay structure
Realistically the structure of the ToK essay does not allow too many moving parts. It needs to start with an introduction and end with a conclusion. There need to be arguments which will be evaluated...
Assessment
Essay tips 2: Leading by example
In this short video I discuss the central role of examples in the ToK essay. It is often supposed that the best way to go about the essay process is from abstract to concrete: using abstract prior definitions...
Assessment
Essay tips videos
Here is a collection of short(ish) videos by Ric on preparation of the ToK essay. Each video develops ideas found elsewhere in the essay section. They might be worth viewing before you tackle the final...
Activities
History/Archaeology - art or science?
The past may seem fixed but our understanding of it is likely to evolve as new evidence comes to light and new interpretations are made of old evidence. We investigate this by taking an example from archaeology...
Blog
From the ether… Free
In today's blog we discuss two themes: serendipity and ownership of knowledge. The photo might be a little misleading since the focus is on the story of ether and not a digital currency etherum - but...
Routes through the course
Routes through the Natural Sciences
This page covers different possible routes for activities in the Natural Sciences. There are probably too many activities provided in this module for you to be able to do them all in the 10 hours that...
Routes through the course
Routes through Knowledge and Language Optional Theme
This page covers different possible routes through the Knowledge and Language Optional Theme. We have provided a collection of activities on this site which will grow as the site grows. To help teachers...