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May 5, 2012

My Final feedback from the Internal assessment moderation process

Filed under: Biology — Tags: Biology IA, experiments, IA, moderation, Moderator — Stephen @ 9:23 pm

Almost finished. I have 15 students left which could mean anything from 30 to 9o separate experiments to read through (my present school I am working on has 6 students and 36 separate assignments). My last school had 8 students and sixteen experiments as each student designed two complete experiments.

I have found the whole experience invaluable. It has shown me what other schools do and really brought home to me what to look for in each criteria that I mark. It will most definitely impact my classroom next year.

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April 7, 2012

IA moderation

Filed under: Biology — Tags: Bio IA, internal assessment, moderation — Stephen @ 6:09 pm

I am now well into moderating my IA samples of labs and would like to share some of my experiences. In total I have 108 students to work through which I guess approximates to a minimum of 216 labs.

As I mark I am constantly referring to the guidelines from the published Biology guide found on the OCC website. I have also been reminded that I am moderating and not marking and I should try and go with the teacher where ever possible. However, many of the samples I am marking have no comments from teachers, which can make it rather difficult on occasion to go with the teachers grade. I need to read the argument put forth why a grade should be given, especially if its a borderline one. When I have it I am far more inclined to go with the teacher than if they do not. One school did not circle which labs I should mark for which criteria. E.g. I received three full labs and for a criteria for which there were three 5′s I had to chose myself.

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March 21, 2012

Preparing your IA sample

Filed under: Chemistry — Tags: 4/psow, IA, IB Chemistry, internal assessment, moderation, PSOW — David @ 12:16 pm

If you are a ‘May’ session school it is that time of year again – you need to start thinking about getting your IA results up to date and your marks sent off to the IB. Once that has been done, you will be told which students work will have to be sent to the moderator.

Here are a few reminders / tips to help the moderator and the moderation process:

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January 11, 2011

Starting to think about the CRB?

Filed under: Visual arts — Tags: Candidate Record Booklet, CRB, descriptor, markband, moderation, OCC — triplea_av @ 12:09 pm

Following on from last week’s blog focus on the candidate statement, this one is about the CRB itself.

My students have their IBDP visual arts examination at the end of March 2011, and I plan to send the Candidate Record Booklets to our examiner around mid-March – so there is still more than two months to go before the CRBs need to be finished, packaged up and sent – but still, I like to get the students thinking about all the CRB requirements early so that we try at least to minimize the panic that some are prone to.

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November 12, 2010

Preparing your IA sample for the moderator

Filed under: Chemistry — Tags: assessment, Chemistry, Higher, HL, I.B., IA, IB, internal, level, moderation, Moderator, sample, SL, Standard — David @ 7:50 pm

So, the big day has finally arrived. You have submitted your IA marks to the IB and they have requested some work to send to the moderator.

What happens next?

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May 17, 2010

The End of the Essay?

Filed under: Global Contexts — Tags: Differentiated instruction, moderation, multimedia presentation, MYP Science, SMART technology — triplea_ble @ 2:21 pm

The most recent coordinators’ notes (May 2010) had more than a few twists and turns, including the bombshell that IB will now accept oral, Powerpoint, or multimedia presentations.

For many years we’ve been hearing complaints from kids who HATE writing essays that they felt they could communicate their ideas better with a presentation. It was hard to argue with them but the reason was always that presentations are not transportable.

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Moderation: Are you ready for it?

Filed under: El Programa de los Años Intermedios en Acción — Tags: background information, criteria, moderation, task specific clarification — triplea_mbi @ 1:17 am

If you are going to send a sample for moderation here is a list of things to do before you submit the work. It is also a good checklist to help you when you feel overwhelmed preparing your sample to present to your MYP Coordinator.

- Have you used the Arts new guide published in 2008 to prepare and assess the work?

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May 5, 2010

Because I still have moderation on the mind

Filed under: Technology — Tags: assessment, design folder, moderation — Kathy Snow @ 11:30 am

OK, I seem to be stuck on a theme, but I promise you this is my last post in this direction for awhile. Why not send the moderation team your electronic folders next year. Think about the savings in time and scanning/photocopying and shipping costs.

You could set up your students design folders in Wikispaces or Googledocs for example, create one page as the index to help the moderator sort through the material, a link to each student and to the background info, and a separate section for all the F3.1s and then all you have to do is Email the one link and share the file so that the moderation team has access. How easy is that? if you get organized early enough, the students do all the work of uploading their own work so it turns the nightmare of organizing your moderation sample into the simple process of filling out 8 F3.1 forms and making the links.

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April 24, 2010

Moderation Time

Filed under: Technology — Tags: innovation, moderation — Kathy Snow @ 7:25 am

The Volcano in Iceland has put a bit of a damper on the Moderation meetings scheduled to take place this weekend. The technology meeting was canceled altogether… in a manner of speaking. Rather than flying to Madrid for a face to face meeting the technology team is meeting virtually, using a great set of software packets.

Eluminate for discussions. It works much like Skype, however, has a much more professional look and feel and gives you a shared whiteboard as well that all the participants of the meeting can add notes to, or which can be controlled by the moderator of the meeting.

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April 23, 2010

Electronic Design Folders

Filed under: Technology — Tags: assessment, innovation, moderation — Kathy Snow @ 4:10 pm

Providing the evidence for assessment in MYP Technology is done through the design folder. Often a very heavily text based object. But does it have to be this way? The assessment criteria ask for evidence of each stage of the design cycle organized under the appropriate assessment criterion headings, it does not say this has to be a written document. What about creating a process journal in mp3 format? Or a Design Folder Website? What about a prototype designs, actually building rather than sketching? A Blog is also a great format for a record of process, or perhaps an entire design folder video?

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May 5, 2012

My Final feedback from the Internal assessment moderation process

April 7, 2012

IA moderation

March 21, 2012

Preparing your IA sample

January 11, 2011

Starting to think about the CRB?

November 12, 2010

Preparing your IA sample for the moderator

May 17, 2010

The End of the Essay?

Moderation: Are you ready for it?

May 5, 2010

Because I still have moderation on the mind

April 24, 2010

Moderation Time

April 23, 2010

Electronic Design Folders