Extended Essay Evaluation Overview by Art Campbell

2) What are the Key Questions?

artcampbell — 2014-11-04 01:54:13 UTC

1) Introduction

artcampbell — 2014-11-04 12:55:09 UTC

The Extended Essay is a 4000 word paper that students must complete to achieve diploma status. Students begin the paper in the junior year and finish in the senior year. The paper is not connected to any class but throughout grades 9, 10 and 11 students are taught how to develop a thesis, make a claim and provide evidence and reasoning to defend it.

Mihaela Munteanu: VERY nice format and inline with a visual! I am hoping after I got all my thoughts down I can do something fancy like this in draft 2 including comments from you and Michele.

mihaelamunteanu — 2014-11-09 02:53:40 UTC

Mihaela I recommend having a legend outside the white table to tell what is EE, IB although you do have above what is EE. But examiner and IB is not known until you listen to all voices

mihaelamunteanu — 2014-11-09 02:55:27 UTC

For the intro as a different format maybe write down your points and background? Also if you do decided to still leave as voice speak pls not as fast. You did great on the other voices but for this Intro you were fast; and I think the intro has very important info

mihaelamunteanu — 2014-11-09 02:57:16 UTC

Mihaela: for ideas for data analysis and key eval question 3 pls see attached message

mihaelamunteanu — 2014-11-09 03:19:03 UTC

Michele Westphal

michelewestphal — 2014-11-09 18:46:28 UTC

Regarding your question of Surveying Teachers' Background knowedge.

-I think a survey could work, but I think you would want to include some items that will screen teachers' knowledge rather than just self-rating

-Please listen to my remaining comments for further explanation of my thoughts.

Michele Westphal

michelewestphal — 2014-11-09 18:52:00 UTC

Regarding your concern about the subjectivity of the grading

-I understand you concern of the subjectivity of the scoring, but I would think there are some pretty standardized criteria as a part of the EE. I think you are on track with beginning an evaluation of the program due to the high pressure associated with offering IB programs.

-I am wondering if there would be any value in forming some focus groups of teachers to try to get some conversation going around the key questions. I think the final question could provide the foundation for some focus groups, and provide an alternative perspective. It would also allow you to target different sub-groups of teachers since you have 65 teachers participating. I would believe that the information gathered during focus groups could lead to strategies that you may not have yet considered.

Legend

artcampbell — 2014-11-09 19:23:23 UTC

IB: International Baccalaureate Program is an international curriculum developed in the 1960s. Originally created for children of diplomates it is a world wide curriculum followed by everyone that subscribes including all assessments and policies.

IB Examiner: A teacher, not one in this school, employed by the International Baccalaureate that is trained to grade IB assessments.

EE: Extended Essay is one of four major components required for students to successfully achieve an IB Diploma.

EE mentor/teacher: Teacher in our school that mentors individual students with the EE process and delivers a predicted grade based on the IB rubric.

Teacher survey

artcampbell — 2014-11-09 19:35:15 UTC

4) Concerns

artcampbell — 2014-11-09 20:38:23 UTC

3) Data Collection & Analysis

artcampbell — 2014-11-09 21:04:02 UTC

Sources: Archival records

-EE mentor/teacher graded EE papers, completed rubrics and comments

-IB Reports from examiners comments and completed rubrics

Survey of EE mentor/teachers

artcampbell — 2014-11-09 21:06:54 UTC