- Internal Assessment Component
Individual Oral: 25%.
The individual oral will initially be internally assessed by the teacher. Criteria marks and teacher marking comments will be submitted to the IB along with the recording. The individual oral will then be externally marked by the IB.
- Internal Assessment Details
The IA consists of one recorded conference per student which lasts approximately 15 minutes:
Supported by an extract from one non-literary text and one from a literary work, students will offer a prepared response of 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of questions by the teacher, to the following prompt:
Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the works and one of the bodies of work that you have studied.
Students must consult with their teacher about their choice of texts, extracts and global issue as well as about their draft outline. Students are also required to submit their extracts to the teacher at least a week prior to the date of the examination.
- Internal Assessment Procedure
Important Note- The individual oral must follow strict IB regulations and Pamoja asks the SBC or another member of school staff to invigilate the exam.
- The student must bring clean copies of their extracts and a ten bullet-point outline to the examination. The invigilator will need to confirm that the copies of the extracts are clean, not highlighted or annotated and the outline consists of ten bullet points and not more than that.
- The student must ensure that they have their camera switched on for the whole duration of the exam. The invigilator will be asked to confirm that the student does not have any unauthorised material in the room/on their desk etc. If the teacher suspects any malpractice, the individual oral will be stopped.
- The individual orals will be conducted between Weeks 31 and 33 (15th May - 29th May) for HL and SL students. Students must sign-up on the sheet or the Calendly link provided by their teacher after they have consulted with their SBC to ensure there will be an invigilator available at that time. If none of the possible times are suitable, they should contact the teacher ASAP to make other arrangements.
- Teachers will set the conference in the platform (Zoom) for each student. If the student is using school-managed computers, SBCs should check that there are no restrictions on accessing the Zoom software. If required, this should be checked with IT support in advance of the IA.
- On the day of the assessment, connect to Zoom Conference “Student Name IA OFFICIAL” five minutes before the assigned time.
- SBCs are responsible for ensuring examination conditions are met. Provide the students with a headset with a microphone. Make sure the location being used for the assessment is quiet to ensure a good quality recording.
- Detail on the Individual Oral
At the beginning of the exam, students will be asked to say a disclaimer authorizing Pamoja to share their recording for assessment purposes:
I “candidate 123abc” confirm that I am aware that this session is being recorded and that I give permission for this to stored, transmitted and used for the purposes of assessment as needed for me to fulfil my requirements of the course.
IOs will be submitted to the IB for moderation by Pamoja