Sitges & Calafell:
A comparative study of two contrasting tourist resorts
A comparative study of two contrasting tourist resorts
Requirements
This is a compulsory element of your International Baccalaureate course. If you fail to submit an Internal Assessment you will fail your whole diploma - not just Geography!
* The aim of producing an Internal Assessment is to demonstrate your application of skills and knowledge.
* Your Internal Assessment counts for 25% of your final grade if you are doing DP Geography at Standard Level and 20% if you are a Higher Level student.
* Apart from the learning process, teachers can give advice to students on a first draft of the internally assessed work. This advice should be in terms of the way the work could be improved, but this first draft must not be heavily annotated or edited by the teacher.
* The next version handed to the teacher after the first draft must be the final one. DP Geography guide - page 65.
* The exact teacher determined grade of the IA will not be disclosed to the students before the exam session. However, the student may know what level it has attained.
Academic Honesty
* All coursework including work submitted for assessment - is to be authentic, based on the students individual and original ideas with the ideas and work of others fully acknowledged.
* All work submitted to the IB for moderation or assessment must be authenticated by a teacher, and must not include any known instances of suspected academic misconduct.
* Once the research is completed and the necessary fieldwork information and possible methods of presentation exchanged, the emphasis must be on individual work. The writing of the report, the justification of methods, the analysis and the conclusion must be entirely the work of the individual student. All work will be uploaded to Turnitin which also now gives an AI similarity index rating.
Deadlines
The non-negotiable deadline for the first draft of each chapter can be found below.
Step 1 - Fieldwork question and geographic context Wednesday 24th May 2023 - 21h00
Step 2 - Method(s) of investigation Wednesday 7th June 2023 - 21h00
Step 3 & 4 - Quality and treatment of information collected, Written analysis, Monday 26th June 2023 - 21h00
Step 5 & 6 - Conclusion & Evaluation Wednesday 5th July 2023 - 21h00
School breaks up for the summer holiday on Thursday 6th July 2023
Your first drafts will be uploaded to ManageBac with all the necessary maps and graphs etc. Please upload as a Word Document
The final deadline for the IBDP Geography Internal Assessment is Friday 22 September 2023. Please see the 'Submission requirements' section for the further details of the formats needed.
After this final deadline you will NOT get your IA back to change.
Submission Requirements
Remember that if your IA is sent for moderation it will be being marked on a screen by an examiner who does not know you. Final versions will be submitted ready to be sent for moderation. You will not be told if your work is part of the moderation sample.
When you submit the final version of your IA on Friday 22 September 2023
- Upload both a PDF & Word digital version to ManageBac.
Only once the step above has been taken is the IA submission complete.
Formal Requirements
The total word count of your Internal Assessment must not exceed 2500 words. Where work is over the limit, teachers and moderators are advised to stop reading.
The following are not included in the word count.
- Title page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents page
- Titles and subtitles
- References
- Footnotes- up to a maximum of 15 words each
- Map legends and/or keys
- Labels- of 10 words or less
- Tables of statistical or numerical data,or categories, classes or group names
- Calculations
- Appendices - containing only raw data and/or calculations
* All the main text is included in the word count, including the research question, analysis, conclusion and evaluation; as well as all annotations over 10 words and any footnotes over 15 words.
* Breakdown your word count so it is easier for the examiner to see you are within the total word count by putting the word count at the end of each section.
* All illustrative material should be numbered and fully integrated into the body of the report.
* Pages should be numbered and there should be a contents page.
* References used for background information should follow the standard MLA system conventions. This includes information from the internet, where references should include titles,URL addresses and dates when sites were visited. All sources of secondary information must be referenced.
* Footnotes may be used to reference material or an alphabetically organized bibliography at the end of your Internal Assessment.
* Overall presentation should be neat and well structured.
