Guide to marking ESS projects
As promised, here is a quick guide to correcting ESS projects.
Apologies for the very basic page.
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Research Project - OL Grade D
First
of all, here's a project that scored a D grade at Ordinary Level. You
can see it's from quite a weak child and he has mostly stuck in bits
downloaded from the Internet. However, he does have a contents and a
source page, he has used some pictures in appropriate locations and he
has tried to do something a little bit different with his piece on
songs.
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His scores would have been:
Aim - 0
Org. of material - 2
Historical content - 1
Cand's understanding of Hist cont - 0
Format etc - 3
Illustrative material - 2
Sources, contents - 3
Conclusion - 2
Init. and Orig - 3
Total - 16, which would have been a pass.
Had
he put in an aim, even rudimentary labels on his photos or a tiny bit of
writing commenting on the songs or poems, he could have scored into the
20s.
Research Project - OL Grade B
This girl is a good OL student.
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Her scores would have been:
Aim - 4
Org. of material - 4
Historical content - 2
Cand's understanding of Hist cont - 2
Format etc - 5
Illustrative material - 2
Sources, contents - 3
Conclusion - 4
Init. and Orig - 7
Total - 33, which would have been a High B.
Research Project HL - Grade A
Good HL student.
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The scores would have been:
Aim - 5
Org. of material - 4
Historical content - 3
Cand's understanding of Hist cont - 3
Format etc - 5
Illustrative material - 2
Sources, contents - 3
Conclusion - 4
Init. and Orig - 9
Total - 34, which would have been a Low A, but an A nonetheless.
Here
is a link to a 40/40 HL Research Project. It is an outstanding piece of
work, with obviously a dedicated teacher driving them on. It is very
impressive, but not unachievable with a co-operative child.
Full marks HL research project
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