Consistency, periodicity, rationale, purpose and indicators are carefully considered before designing a report of this magnitude.

In a student-centric approach, learners are central to learning and the same should be, in their assessment too. 

Students are introduced to the character element and can watch others demonstrating it. 

Developing: 

Student learns from others who demonstrate the character element and demonstrates with scaffolding and guidance 

 

Extended: 

Student demonstrates the character element confidently and effectively 

 

Competent: 

Student can show others how to demonstrate the character element accurately and assess its effectiveness 

Analysis and Reflection from an IB E-assessment Paper - May 2019

MYP UNIT PLANNING

15/12/2021

Category 2: Return of material by component
All assessment material will be returned to the school for a single on-screen examination from a given subject. A category 2 enquiry is for the purpose of returning assessment material only and does not constitute a candidate’s claim of exclusive copyright on that material. If a candidate wishes to claim exclusive copyright, a separate request must be sent to the Assessment Division, IB Global Centre, Cardiff, using the MYP Exclusive copyright form.The fee charged for the request covers the whole school entry for that single component.There are conditions attached to the return of candidates’ assessment material to schools.Assessment material must be seen only by teachers who are members of the school staff/faculty at that IB World School or returned directly to the candidates concerned.Prior written permission must be obtained from any candidates concerned where teachers intend to use their scripts as examples for other candidates. This permission must be sought only after the candidates have received their results. Candidates who grant their permission have the right to ensure their work is anonymous before it is used. (Teachers must guard against possible plagiarism in such circumstances.)Assessment material used by teachers at the school must be kept securely within the school. Once no longer required, material must be disposed of confidentially. Confidential disposal must not take place earlier than the close of the examination session on 15 October/15 April, and not before any reconsideration or appeal involving that material is resolved.Candidates have the right to instruct their MYP coordinator not to request their assessment material for any purpose.It is the responsibility of the school to bring the above conditions to the attention of the candidate(s) concerned. Furthermore, any returned assessment material likely to be used outside of the school (by any party) must have all examiner details removed.

Category 3 remoderation
This category is a remoderation of a school’s marks and completion of an IA feedback form for internal assessment in a given subject based on the original sample material. Marks and grades may be raised as a consequence of re-moderation, but not lowered.A remoderation will only be undertaken in cases where the mean of the candidates’ moderated criterion level totals differs from the mean of their raw totals (the teacher-assessed totals) by at least 15% of the maximum mark for the subject.A remoderation will not normally be undertaken by the moderator who was the original moderator of the sample work. However, in small-entry subjects there may be some exceptions to this principle.Definitively-markedmaterial: a remoderation will not include work that has been definitively marked. This is because definitively-marked candidate responses are marked by the Principal Examiner and used to ensure that examiners are marking to the correct standard. In these cases the IB are confident that the mark is correct and so remoderation cannot be carried out.The IB reserves the right not to allow a remoderation in any situation where doing so would undermine the integrity of the assessment system.An IA feedback form will not be produced when there is agreement between the teacher’s and examiner’s totals.The fee for this service will not be refunded on the occasions when one or more grades are raised because of the significant costs incurred by the IB in implementing this service.

The IB always aims to complete an enquiry upon results, regardless of the category, in the shortest time possible. However, there are factors beyond the control of the IB. The following targets are therefore only an indication as to how long each service may take.

The final grade awarded to a candidate in each subject is on a scale of one to seven, with seven being the highest grade.

The predicted grade is the teacher’s prediction of the grade the candidate is expected to achieve in the subject, based on all the evidence of the candidate’s work and the teacher’s knowledge of IB standards. It is important that each prediction is made as accurately as possible, without under-predicting or over-predicting the grade.

Predicted grades are for the exclusive use of the grade award meetings when considering a subject’s grade distributions and the performance of individual candidates. The appropriateness of results is checked by comparing awarded grades with predicted grades. If there are significant discrepancies, further reviews may be conducted.

The IB has no policy on whether predicted grades should be released to candidates; this is left to the discretion of the school.

Schools must only enter a total of zero if a candidate has submitted work but does not demonstrate evidence required for the lowest achievement level. 

Totals must be awarded even if the work, or participation, is incomplete. If a candidate submits no work, an “F” must be entered on IBIS for the total, resulting in no grade for the subject. 

If teachers enter their totals directly onto IBIS, rather than the data being entered by the coordinator, the coordinator will need to check and verify the data before it is submitted to the IB. A teacher is not able to submit totals directly to the IB; totals can only be submitted by the MYP coordinator. It is possible for a coordinator to provide teachers with access to an account at any time. Please see section “A3.1.2”. 

IBIS will automatically determine which candidates’ work will be selected for the sample that is uploaded for the purpose of moderation. 

In circumstances where the wrong totals were submitted on IBIS for one or more candidates, the coordinator should contact IB Answers. At the discretion of the IB, the submitted totals may be corrected but no corrections will be accepted after the issue of results. 

Teachers should be encouraged to submit comments to the IB on the quality of the partially completed unit planners. All comments are carefully considered during the appropriate grade award meeting and are also useful for teams preparing future unit planners. All comments must be submitted using the online questionnaire no later than 10 days after the submission deadline for the ePortfolio samples. A link to the questionnaire is sent to school coordinators during the upload period. If a teacher does not receive a link to the questionnaire, they should raise this with their school coordinator. If a coordinator does not receive a link to the questionnaire, they should raise this with IB support (support@ibo.org). It is not possible for the IB to respond to an individual teacher’s comments, but a general response to teachers’ comments is provided in the relevant subject report for the session.