Assessment

Assessment in this course is broken down into two major categories:

Formative assessments
IB Assessments

Formative Assessments

Formative assessments are in class assessments designed to give a chance to develop and communicate your growing understanding of the TOK curriculum. Formative assessments take a number of forms, including class discussions, forum posts, journaling, blogs, essays, projects, and presentations.

Your TOK Journal

TOK is a course that will ask you to do a great deal of personal reflection on your own ideas, concepts, and contexts. The TOK Journal is a place for you to explore your developing understanding of the themes of the course, as well as your own shifting perspective with regards to knowledge and what it means to pursue it.

The TOK Journal is an open-format, unassessed "messy space" for your ideas to take shape. I will not ask you to submit these journals, but they may form the backdrop for your work on other tasks, as well as for small-group and one-on-one conferences.

Discussions & Forum Posts

A central element of the TOK course is the ongoing interaction with other learners who have undertaken the IB journey with you. Discussions and Forum Posts are designed to give you a chance to interact meaningfully with your classmates regarding topics & texts under discussion.

Discussions will take place either synchronously, using Google Meets, or asynchronously, using Flipgrid. Forum Posts will be completed using Google Classroom.

Generally, discussions & forum posts will have both a response element (in which you contribute your own thoughts and ideas) and a reply element (in which your join in conversation with the ideas of your classmates).

Blogs

TOK Blog assignments are designed to give you a chance to gather your thinking on central ideas within a unit, and to make connections between the concepts of the TOK Curriculum and your experiences in and of the world.

Blogs also give you a chance to develop your abilities writing about complex topics for an audience. While blogs are not as formal as essays, they should still aim for organization, polish, and a clear sense of voice.

Essays

Essays in the TOK are designed to give you practice formulating your ideas for an academic audience. They are more formal than blogs, and their format and requirements are modeled on the TOK Essay, which is one of the two major IB Assessments for the course.

Essays will generally be written in response to a particular text or cluster of Knowledge Questions that relate to the unit under study.

Projects & Presentations

TOK Projects & Presentations are a chance for you to express your learning through doing, to work collaboratively with members of your class, and to develop your ability to construct informative and argumentative texts in a variety of media.

IB Assessments

IB Assessments are assessments that contribute to your official IB Grade for the TOK Course. For the graduating class of 2022, there are two components to the IB Assessment

The TOK Exhibition

The TOK Exhibition is an internally assessed (IA) component worth 33% of your overall IB Grade in the TOK. The TOK exhibition is designed to give you a chance to demonstrate your ability to apply TOK concepts to real-world contexts and situations.

The TOK Exhibition will be completed during your first year of the TOK course. It is graded by your teacher and moderated by an external IB assessor.

Click here for more information on the TOK Exhibition.

The TOK Essay

The TOK Essay is an externally assessed (EA) component worth 67% of your overall IB Grade in TOK. The TOK essay is designed to give you an opportunity to develop an in-depth response to a TOK question selected from six (6) questions published during the Fall of your senior year.

The TOK Essay is developed in conversation with your TOK teacher, and is submitted to the IB for assessment by an external assessor.

Click here for more information on the TOK Essay.

TOK and IB Diploma Points

At the IB level, TOK is graded on a scale from "A" (excellent) to "E" (elementary). You must achieve an IB Grade of at least a "D" in order to be eligible to receive the IB Diploma.

The TOK (along with the Extended Essay) contributes to a possible three (3) points toward achievement of the IB Diploma.

Additional Assessment Concerns

The TOK course will also be the central hub for the ongoing development of other IB core elements, including:

Each of these elements are complex in their own right, and are covered in more detail at their respective Web homes. Please click on the links above to learn more about CAS and the EE.

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