INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
This is your Personal Investigation
Key Idea
Engage with investigations of environmental and societal issues at the local and global level by selecting appropriate research and practical skills necessary to carry out investigations'' - syllabus extract.
The internal assessment task involves the completion of an individual investigation of an ESS research question that has been designed and implemented by the student. The investigation is submitted as a written report. The report should be 1,500 to 2,250 words long.
(Duration of IA work:10 hours, Weighting: 25%).
The internal assessment investigation consists of:
Key Idea
Engage with investigations of environmental and societal issues at the local and global level by selecting appropriate research and practical skills necessary to carry out investigations'' - syllabus extract.
The internal assessment task involves the completion of an individual investigation of an ESS research question that has been designed and implemented by the student. The investigation is submitted as a written report. The report should be 1,500 to 2,250 words long.
(Duration of IA work:10 hours, Weighting: 25%).
The internal assessment investigation consists of:
- identifying an ESS issue and focusing on one of its specific aspects
- developing methodologies to generate data that are analysed to produce knowledge and understanding of this focused aspect
- applying the outcomes of the focused investigation to provide understanding or solutions in the broader ESS context.
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Support Material |
Choosing a context area |
1. Selecting your context 2. IA idea list 3. Lab report template As an introduction to this whole process you will choose 2 investigations from the list of exemplars from th IB and then mark using the criteria. Compare you mark with the examiner's marks. 4. IA assessment criteria |
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Planning the investigation |
5. Writing a good ESS report - guidelines to help you write lab reports and your IA Use this planning preparation sheet to help you plan in your selected context: 6. Planning preparation You must decide on an appropriate sampling strategies for your selected method- use the support material and this ppt to help you. 7. Sampling strategies and quadrats 8. Examples of measuring devices |
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Data Collection |
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Data analysis and presentation |
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