https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3 What balance between the skills is suggested by the weighting? What differences can be detected between SL and HL? What differences can you imagine will exist between the detailed tasks and texts at SL and HL? en-us 2018-03-21 03:58:07 UTC 2025-11-03 03:43:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png pravin https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244357718 In it’s essence the assessments aim at providing a balance between receptive and productive skills. The course assessments are directly related to the three broad areas of “receptive, productive and interactive skills.” In short the course aims at teaching and assessing  the four domains of language acquisition i.e. Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. The receptive skills being reading and listening and the productive skills being speaking and writing. It also aims to assess the interactive skills. ]]> 2018-03-21 04:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244357718 pravin https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244358133 Overall Assessment (External + Internal) = Productive skills (50%) + Receptive skills (50%)]]> 2018-03-21 04:11:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244358133 pravin https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244358200 The overall assessment is broken down into two large categories of:
 External assessment and internal assessment.  
The external assessment is weighed at 75%, while the internal assessment is weighed at a 25%.
The productive skill of speaking along with interactive skills is assessed internally and is weighed at 25%. Although writing skill is assessed externally it is also weighed at 25%, therefore giving the productive skills  a weight of 50% in the overall assessment. 

Similarly, the receptive skills are weighed at 50%]]> 2018-03-21 04:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244358200 pravin https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244361911 While paper one specifically deals with writing for both for SL and HL. The linguistic complexity, the elaboration and the task  expectations are different for both HL and SL.  The time limit is extended for the HL students. I am assuming that would be due to different syllabus, the depth of language instruction, assessment complexity and time. 

]]> 2018-03-21 04:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244361911 pravin https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244362015 In paper two again the difference is in the time allotted to the HL students. The HL students get an extra 15 minutes. In addition to that the task complexity and the text level will certainly be different. I am assuming that would be due to different syllabus, the depth of language instruction, assessment complexity and time.]]> 2018-03-21 04:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244362015 jeroenmasson https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244408926 Students taking the HL course get 15 minutes more to finish paper 1, but the have to produce a lot more text. I also imagine that parallel to the increase i complexity of the other parts of the exam, this paper will not only requires the HL students to produce more, but to also produce text of a more advanced nature, as Pravin has already mentioned. ]]> 2018-03-21 09:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244408926 jeroenmasson https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244411578 Different levels of reading and listening (see CEFR for possible levels of difficulty) can require more time (for instance if the reading text is longer), but can also require a higher level of the student. I can only assume that the HL texts will not only be longer but also more complex.]]> 2018-03-21 09:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244411578 jeroenmasson https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244412288 As Pravin already mentioned, The balance between both papers and at both levels is very similar, i.e. 50% productive skills, and 50% receptive. I do wonder at the difference between the reading comprehension (40 marks) and the listening comprehension (25). It seems to suggest that listening is of less importance than reading. ]]> 2018-03-21 09:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244412288 jeroenmasson https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244413950 The difference is difficulty level is very apparent in the oral interaction part: for the SL the students have a relatively straightforward visual stimulus. At HL the student have to discuss a literary passage - which is much more challenging. I assume in the next module the difference between evaluation of content and form (which should be the focus in a oral exam) will become apparent.]]> 2018-03-21 09:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244413950 jeroenmasson https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244415846 This is probably silly, but I can only post in white fields. :) 
How do I add colour? ]]> 2018-03-21 09:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/244415846 https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245687734 SL vs HL
So far I have been just using SL , but as Pravin and Jeroen mention, both productive and receptive skills weight 50% each one, eventhough they are distributed or organized for different moments. One of them main differences I identify is that the productive skills in the HL are more challenging, the lenght of the written text is longer and the assessment of speaking implies a deeper analysis of a literary text.]]> 2018-03-24 02:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245687734 maritza_cruz1 https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245689169 I can infer that the complexity of the text in Listening in HL as well as the variety of texts makes students spend more time in the analysis of it. ]]> 2018-03-24 02:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245689169 maritza_cruz1 https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245689622 The amount of marks in both leves is exactly the same, I do insist that since the "use" of the language is the most powerful evidence of how much we comprend and then how effective is our message , productive skills are more complex in HL.]]> 2018-03-24 02:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pravin/u47s4bfkdxc3/wish/245689622