TOK ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
TOK Assessment Criteria: TOK ESSAY of 800 words in grade 11
Criterion A: Understanding KIs
Criterion B:
Knower’s Perspective
Criterion C:
Quality of Analysis of KIs
Criterion D:
Organization of Ideas
0
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
1-2
1. Little treatment of KI that is relevant to prescribed title.
2. WoKs or AoKs are merely mentioned
3. little understanding of KI
1. There is limited personal engagement with the KI related to the prescribed title.
2. no appropriate examples offered in support of a claims made in the essay.
1. There is no inquiry into KIs, only description.
2. There are very few attempts at justifying the main points of the essays.
3. There is no awareness of counterclaims.
1. The essay is very poorly structured,
2. It is difficult to know what the writer intends.
3. Information used to support arguments may contain significant inaccuracies.
4. Sources ideas may not be acknowledged and there is no attempt at referencing.
3-4
1. Some treatment of KI relevant to title
2. Some links to WoKs or AoKs but they are largely ineffective.
3. A rudimentary understanding of KI
1. There is some personal engagement with the knowledge issues.
2. Examples chosen are sometimes appropriate.
1. Inquiry partly explores, but largely describes KIs.
2. Some justification of main points and some coherent argument.
3. There is very little awareness of counterclaim.
1. Poorly structured, with limited overall organization.
2. Sometimes difficult to understand what the writer intends.
3. There may be some attempt to explain the meaning of terms but this contributes little to conceptual clarity and factual information used to support arguments is not always reliable.
4. Some sources of information and ideas are acknowledged.
5-6
1. For the most part the essay focusses on a relevant KI
2. Some effective links are drawn to
Criterion A: Understanding KIs
Criterion B:
Knower’s Perspective
Criterion C:
Quality of Analysis of KIs
Criterion D:
Organization of Ideas
0
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
Level 1 was not achieved
1-2
1. Little treatment of KI that is relevant to prescribed title.
2. WoKs or AoKs are merely mentioned
3. little understanding of KI
1. There is limited personal engagement with the KI related to the prescribed title.
2. no appropriate examples offered in support of a claims made in the essay.
1. There is no inquiry into KIs, only description.
2. There are very few attempts at justifying the main points of the essays.
3. There is no awareness of counterclaims.
1. The essay is very poorly structured,
2. It is difficult to know what the writer intends.
3. Information used to support arguments may contain significant inaccuracies.
4. Sources ideas may not be acknowledged and there is no attempt at referencing.
3-4
1. Some treatment of KI relevant to title
2. Some links to WoKs or AoKs but they are largely ineffective.
3. A rudimentary understanding of KI
1. There is some personal engagement with the knowledge issues.
2. Examples chosen are sometimes appropriate.
1. Inquiry partly explores, but largely describes KIs.
2. Some justification of main points and some coherent argument.
3. There is very little awareness of counterclaim.
1. Poorly structured, with limited overall organization.
2. Sometimes difficult to understand what the writer intends.
3. There may be some attempt to explain the meaning of terms but this contributes little to conceptual clarity and factual information used to support arguments is not always reliable.
4. Some sources of information and ideas are acknowledged.
5-6
1. For the most part the essay focusses on a relevant KI
2. Some effective links are drawn to