Internal Assessment

Lesson 1 Day 3 (13/03/2018)

Lesson objectives

  1. Introduction to the Internal Assessment component of the IB Economics course; nature of the Portfolio and how it will be assessed- powerpoint 'Class of 2016 Econ IA Criteria'
  2. Required documents for the portfolio - 'RCHK Portfolio cover sheet' & 'RCHK Individual commentary coversheet (1)'
  3. Use of criteria practice - you will be given one of the sample micro commentaries and asked to mark it according to the criteria. Then, you will go into a group and discuss the marks given for the specific commentary. You will see if a consensus set of marks can be given for the commentary - 'Sample IA commentary 1', 'Sample IA commentary 2' & 'Sample IA commentary 3'

Lesson 2 Day 5 (15/03/2018)

Lesson objectives

  1. How to write an economics commentary; how to choose a proper article, examples of appropriate areas of the course, suggested format for the commentary, the purpose of a first draft and an example of a relevant article - powerpoint 'Class of 2016-18 IA Economics Writing Frame'
  2. Planning documents - 'IA help - is this a good article?' & 'Micro article with DEDEE structure'
  3. Final checklist - 'ibdp economics ia checklist for students'
  4. Practice commentary - you will be placed into three different groups; each group will be assigned an article and as a group you will need to construct a plan (DEDEE) of how you would write a commentary on it