Year 12 IB Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 12 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE (IB) COURSE OUTLINE The Theory of Knowledge (TOK) requirement is central to the educational philosophy of the IB Diploma Programme. It offers students the opportunity to: • reflect critically on diverse ways of knowing and on areas of knowledge • consider the role and nature of knowledge in their own culture, in the cultures of others and in the wider world. In addition, it prompts students to: • be aware of themselves as thinkers, encouraging them to become more acquainted with the complexity of knowledge • recognise the need to act responsibly in an increasingly interconnected but uncertain world. As a thoughtful and purposeful inquiry into different ways of knowing, and into different kinds of knowledge, TOK is composed almost entirely of questions. The most central of these is "How do we know?" Presentation: Does the presenter succeed in showing how TOK concepts can have practical application? Has the student: • described clearly the real-life situation that forms the launching point for the presentation? • extracted and clearly formulated a single knowledge question from the real-life situation? • identified and explored various perspectives in relation to the knowledge question, and deployed examples and arguments in the service of this exploration? • related the findings of and insights from the analysis back to the chosen real-life situation and showed how they might be relevant to other real-life situations? Essay on a prescribed title: Does the student present an appropriate and cogent analysis of knowledge questions in discussing the title? Has the student: • understood the proposition? • understood the knowledge questions that are explicit and implicit in the title, and/or linked the proposition to knowledge questions? • developed a comprehensive and cogent point of view about the topic and appropriate knowledge questions? ASSESSMENT OUTLINE

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