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Ice-breaker
Saturday, Sep 20 2024

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Internal assessment sharing session

2024-2025

Kristen Le, M.A in PsychologyIB Psychology Teacher

1 - About me

2 - Internal Assessment Overview

3 - Example from Psychology

4 - Application to other IAs

5 - Q&A

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Kristen Le (Khanh)

  • 2+ years of experience teaching IB Psychology in Brooklyn at an IB for all school
  • BA and MA in Psychology
  • 7+ years working with students from K to higher ed

About me

Internal Assessment

  • A research project, experiment, or investigation completed by students within their subject.
  • Graded by teacher, rubric differs across subjects
  • Teachers are allowed to provide written feedback once
  • Student must submit an IA to receive the subject grade
  • Great way for students to incorporate their interest into the subject.

Example from psychology

  • Students work in groups of up to 4 to replicate a psychological experiment
  • Students create their own research materials and justify their choices with research methodology background
  • Report writing is independent

Sample IA Psychology Policy

Sample scaffolding lesson

Example from psychology

  • Encourage students to choose something they're passionate about within the subject
  • Ensure the topic is feasible and has enough depth for investigation
Topic selection

Applying to other IAs

  • Help students craft focused, clear, and researchable questions by doing multi-step proposals
  • Emphasize they write SMART questions: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
Question development

Applying to other IAs

  • Provide planning template and establish a timeline
  • Standardize the design/analysis/method for easier scaffolding and grading
  • Discuss reliable sources, data collection methods, and the importance of academic integrity
Planning & Research

Applying to other IAs

  • Provide in-class scaffolding writing time
  • Analyse lots of samples
  • Break down the IB rubric into smaller chunks/checklists
  • Mixing up IA time with other relevant course content (Math spent one semester in Y1 on the IA)
Writing the IA

Applying to other IAs

Glows and Grows

Students get lots of resources to help them fulfill the IB rubric (i.e. samples, teacher's feedback, analysis...)

Teacher can quickly identify students' struggle and provide timely differentiated support.

Having an IA unit feels organized and increases students' sense of urgency.

Not much room to be creative in lesson plans.

Might be difficult to follow for students who are not highly motivated or self-sufficient.

Requires lots of planning in advance, not great for reactive teaching.

Feel free to reach me at kristenph.le@gmail.com :)

Q&A

IA Sharing session