■♥t�r♥❛t✐✁♥❛✂ ✥❛❝❝❛✂❛✉r�❛t�✱ ✥❛❝❝❛✂❛✉ré❛t ■♥t�r♥❛t✐✁♥❛✂ ✄☎❞ ✥❛❝❤✐✂✂�r❛t✁ ■♥t�r♥❛❝✐✁♥❛✂
✄✆✝ ✆✝❣✞s✟✝✆✝❞ ✟✆✄❞✝♠✄✆❦s ✠❢ ✟✡✝ ☛☎✟✝✆☎✄✟✞✠☎✄❧ ☞✄✌✌✄❧✄✍✆✝✄✟✝ ✎✆❣✄☎✞③✄✟✞✠☎✳
P✏✑✒✓✔✕❡✖ ✗✘✙✚✕ ✛✵✵✼
❯♣✖✘✜❡✖ ✢♦✈❡✣✑❡✙ ✛✵✵✽✤ ✦❡✑✙✏✘✙② ✛✵✵✾✤ ✧❡✚❡✣✑❡✙ ✛✵✶✵✤ ✗✘② ✛✵✶✛✤ ★✏✩✏✔✜ ✛✵✶✸
P✏✑✒✓✔✕❡✖ ♦✪ ✑❡✕✘✒✫ ♦✫ ✜✕❡ ✬✪✜❡✙✪✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ✭✘✚✚✘✒✘✏✙❡✘✜❡ ✮✙✩✘✪✓✯✘✜✓♦✪✤ ✘ ✪♦✜✲✫♦✙✲♣✙♦✫✓✜
❡✖✏✚✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ✫♦✏✪✖✘✜✓♦✪ ♦✫ ✶✺ ✰♦✏✜❡ ✖❡✔ ✗♦✙✓✒✒♦✪✔✤ ✶✛✶✽ ✴❡ ✷✙✘✪✖✲❙✘✚♦✪✪❡①✤ ✷❡✪❡✈✘✤
❙✇✓✜✯❡✙✒✘✪✖ ✑② ✜✕❡
✬✪✜❡✙✪✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ✭✘✚✚✘✒✘✏✙❡✘✜❡ ✮✙✩✘✪✓✯✘✜✓♦✪ ✹❯❑✻ ✴✜✖
P❡✜❡✙✔♦✪ ✿♦✏✔❡✤ ✗✘✒✜✕♦✏✔❡ ★✈❡✪✏❡✤ ❀✘✙✖✓✫✫ ✷✘✜❡
❀✘✙✖✓✫✫✤ ❁✘✒❡✔ ❀✦✛✸ ✽✷✴
❯✪✓✜❡✖ ❑✓✪✩✖♦✣
❁❡✑✔✓✜❡❂ ✇✇✇❃✓✑♦❃♦✙✩
➞ ✬✪✜❡✙✪✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ✭✘✚✚✘✒✘✏✙❡✘✜❡ ✮✙✩✘✪✓✯✘✜✓♦✪ ✛✵✵✼
❚✕❡ ✬✪✜❡✙✪✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ✭✘✚✚✘✒✘✏✙❡✘✜❡ ✮✙✩✘✪✓✯✘✜✓♦✪ ✹❄✪♦✇✪ ✘✔ ✜✕❡ ✬✭✻ ♦✫✫❡✙✔ ✫♦✏✙ ✕✓✩✕✲q✏✘✒✓✜②
✘✪✖ ✚✕✘✒✒❡✪✩✓✪✩ ❡✖✏✚✘✜✓♦✪✘✒ ♣✙♦✩✙✘✣✣❡✔ ✫♦✙ ✘ ✇♦✙✒✖✇✓✖❡ ✚♦✣✣✏✪✓✜② ♦✫ ✔✚✕♦♦✒✔✤ ✘✓✣✓✪✩
✜♦ ✚✙❡✘✜❡ ✘ ✑❡✜✜❡✙✤ ✣♦✙❡ ♣❡✘✚❡✫✏✒ ✇♦✙✒✖❃ ❚✕✓✔ ♣✏✑✒✓✚✘✜✓♦✪ ✓✔ ♦✪❡ ♦✫ ✘ ✙✘✪✩❡ ♦✫ ✣✘✜❡✙✓✘✒✔
♣✙♦✖✏✚❡✖ ✜♦ ✔✏♣♣♦✙✜ ✜✕❡✔❡ ♣✙♦✩✙✘✣✣❡✔❃
❚✕❡ ✬✭ ✣✘② ✏✔❡ ✘ ✈✘✙✓❡✜② ♦✫ ✔♦✏✙✚❡✔ ✓✪ ✓✜✔ ✇♦✙❄ ✘✪✖ ✚✕❡✚❄✔ ✓✪✫♦✙✣✘✜✓♦✪ ✜♦ ✈❡✙✓✫② ✘✚✚✏✙✘✚②
✘✪✖ ✘✏✜✕❡✪✜✓✚✓✜②✤ ♣✘✙✜✓✚✏✒✘✙✒② ✇✕❡✪ ✏✔✓✪✩ ✚♦✣✣✏✪✓✜②✲✑✘✔❡✖ ❄✪♦✇✒❡✖✩❡ ✔♦✏✙✚❡✔ ✔✏✚✕ ✘✔
❁✓❄✓♣❡✖✓✘❃ ❚✕❡ ✬✭ ✙❡✔♣❡✚✜✔ ✜✕❡ ♣✙✓✪✚✓♣✒❡✔ ♦✫ ✓✪✜❡✒✒❡✚✜✏✘✒ ♣✙♦♣❡✙✜② ✘✪✖ ✣✘❄❡✔ ✔✜✙❡✪✏♦✏✔
❡✫✫♦✙✜✔ ✜♦ ✓✖❡✪✜✓✫② ✘✪✖ ♦✑✜✘✓✪ ♣❡✙✣✓✔✔✓♦✪ ✑❡✫♦✙❡ ♣✏✑✒✓✚✘✜✓♦✪ ✫✙♦✣ ✙✓✩✕✜✔ ✕♦✒✖❡✙✔ ♦✫ ✘✒✒
✚♦♣②✙✓✩✕✜ ✣✘✜❡✙✓✘✒ ✏✔❡✖❃ ❚✕❡ ✬✭ ✓✔ ✩✙✘✜❡✫✏✒ ✫♦✙ ♣❡✙✣✓✔✔✓♦✪✔ ✙❡✚❡✓✈❡✖ ✫♦✙ ✣✘✜❡✙✓✘✒ ✏✔❡✖
✓✪ ✜✕✓✔ ♣✏✑✒✓✚✘✜✓♦✪ ✘✪✖ ✇✓✒✒ ✑❡ ♣✒❡✘✔❡✖ ✜♦ ✚♦✙✙❡✚✜ ✘✪② ❡✙✙♦✙✔ ♦✙ ♦✣✓✔✔✓♦✪✔ ✘✜ ✜✕❡ ❡✘✙✒✓❡✔✜
♦♣♣♦✙✜✏✪✓✜②❃
★✒✒ ✙✓✩✕✜✔ ✙❡✔❡✙✈❡✖❃ ✢♦ ♣✘✙✜ ♦✫ ✜✕✓✔ ♣✏✑✒✓✚✘✜✓♦✪ ✣✘② ✑❡ ✙❡♣✙♦✖✏✚❡✖✤ ✔✜♦✙❡✖ ✓✪ ✘ ✙❡✜✙✓❡✈✘✒
✔②✔✜❡✣✤ ♦✙ ✜✙✘✪✔✣✓✜✜❡✖✤ ✓✪ ✘✪② ✫♦✙✣ ♦✙ ✑② ✘✪② ✣❡✘✪✔✤ ✇✓✜✕♦✏✜ ✜✕❡ ♣✙✓♦✙ ✇✙✓✜✜❡✪ ♣❡✙✣✓✔✔✓♦✪
♦✫ ✜✕❡ ✬✭✤ ♦✙ ✘✔ ❡①♣✙❡✔✔✒② ♣❡✙✣✓✜✜❡✖ ✑② ✒✘✇ ♦✙ ✑② ✜✕❡ ✬✭➆✔ ♦✇✪ ✙✏✒❡✔ ✘✪✖ ♣♦✒✓✚②❃ ❙❡❡
✕✜✜♣❂❅❅✇✇✇❃✓✑♦❃♦✙✩❅✚♦♣②✙✓✩✕✜❃
✬✭ ✣❡✙✚✕✘✪✖✓✔❡ ✘✪✖ ♣✏✑✒✓✚✘✜✓♦✪✔ ✚✘✪ ✑❡ ♣✏✙✚✕✘✔❡✖ ✜✕✙♦✏✩✕ ✜✕❡ ✬✭ ✔✜♦✙❡ ✘✜
✕✜✜♣❂❅❅✔✜♦✙❡❃✓✑♦❃♦✙✩❃
❊✣✘✓✒❂ ✔✘✒❡✔❆✓✑♦❃♦✙✩
❉❇❈❋●❍❏ ▲▼●◆▼❏❍❍❖
◗❘❱❖❲❳❖❳ ❖❨❨❏❩ ◆❬❇❳❖
■❇ ✥✐ss✐�♥ st❛t❡✥❡♥t
❚❤✁ ✂✄☎✁r✄✆☎✝♦✄✆✞ ✟✆❝❝✆✞✆✉r✁✆☎✁ ✆✝♠✠ ☎♦ ✡✁✈✁✞♦♣ ✝✄q✉✝r✝✄❣✱ ☛✄♦✇✞✁✡❣✁✆☞✞✁ ✆✄✡ ❝✆r✝✄❣ ✌♦✉✄❣ ♣✁♦♣✞✁ ✇❤♦❤✁✞♣ ☎♦ ❝r✁✆☎✁ ✆ ☞✁☎☎✁r ✆✄✡♠♦r✁ ♣✁✆❝✁❢✉✞ ✇♦r✞✡ ☎❤r♦✉❣❤ ✝✄☎✁r❝✉✞☎✉r✆✞ ✉✄✡✁r✠☎✆✄✡✝✄❣ ✆✄✡ r✁✠♣✁❝☎✳
❚♦ ☎❤✝✠ ✁✄✡ ☎❤✁ ♦r❣✆✄✝③✆☎✝♦✄ ✇♦r☛✠ ✇✝☎❤ ✠❝❤♦♦✞✠✱ ❣♦✈✁r✄♠✁✄☎✠ ✆✄✡ ✝✄☎✁r✄✆☎✝♦✄✆✞ ♦r❣✆✄✝③✆☎✝♦✄✠ ☎♦ ✡✁✈✁✞♦♣❝❤✆✞✞✁✄❣✝✄❣ ♣r♦❣r✆♠♠✁✠ ♦❢ ✝✄☎✁r✄✆☎✝♦✄✆✞ ✁✡✉❝✆☎✝♦✄ ✆✄✡ r✝❣♦r♦✉✠ ✆✠✠✁✠✠♠✁✄☎✳
❚❤✁✠✁ ♣r♦❣r✆♠♠✁✠ ✁✄❝♦✉r✆❣✁ ✠☎✉✡✁✄☎✠ ✆❝r♦✠✠ ☎❤✁ ✇♦r✞✡ ☎♦ ☞✁❝♦♠✁ ✆❝☎✝✈✁✱ ❝♦♠♣✆✠✠✝♦✄✆☎✁ ✆✄✡ ✞✝❢✁✞♦✄❣✞✁✆r✄✁r✠ ✇❤♦ ✉✄✡✁r✠☎✆✄✡ ☎❤✆☎ ♦☎❤✁r ♣✁♦♣✞✁✱ ✇✝☎❤ ☎❤✁✝r ✡✝❢❢✁r✁✄❝✁✠✱ ❝✆✄ ✆✞✠♦ ☞✁ r✝❣❤☎✳
Approaches to teaching and approaches to learning
The IB mission statement and the IB learner profile
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Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Treatment of the topic
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Overview
Choice of topic
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Overview
Choice of topic
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: Research question
Criterion B: Introduction
Criterion C: Investigation
Criterion D: Knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: Reasoned argument
Criterion F: Application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: Use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: Conclusion
Criterion I: Formal presentation
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subject
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
Criterion J: abstract
Criterion K: holistic judgment
Researcher’s reflection space
Interpreting the assessment criteria
Criterion A: research question
Criterion B: introduction
Criterion C: investigation
Criterion D: knowledge and understanding of the topic studied
Criterion E: reasoned argument
Criterion F: application of analytical and evaluative skills appropriate to the subjects
Criterion G: use of language appropriate to the subject
Criterion H: conclusion
Criterion I: formal presentation
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