About Internal Assessment (IA)
Internal Assessment is a mini project in which students have to investigate and research on a topic of their choice.
It is a 6-12 page report that presents your investigation. It covers 20% of your final grade for the specific subject.
Tips to Choose the Topic
Ask yourself questions about things happening around you. It taps you into the creative and curious part of the brain – instigate questions you want answers to.
Tips to choose the right science IA topic:
1. Choose the topic that interests you that you have to talk about the science behind the experiment.
Ask yourself these questions:
Is the topic engaging enough to make a 12-page document and grab the attention of a reader throughout the document?
Does it sound like a person interested, inquisitive, and personally invested in the investigation?
Don't pick the complex idea. Just pick one that shows your experiment is valid, and you present it well.
Adapt a possibly existing IA and add a personal touch for unique and creative science IA research questions.
Choose the right area of interest for RQ, as it will result in a better evaluation of the personal engagement criteria.
2. Choose the right variables for your science research question. They have to be easily changeable variables that will be controlled in the investigation.
If the object is in pendulum, the varying independent variable will be:
Length of the thread
Mass of the Bob
Thickness of the thread
Choose the right dependent variable:
Calculate viable options such as wavelength of the pendulum (not internal energy of any gas).
It shouldn't be complex – examiners don't look upon it.
Therefore, the final research question to the experiment will be in the format-
“To what extent will (independent) variable x affect (dependent) variable y?”
Keeping these tips in mind, choose the right science IA topic and keep the body of the assessment focused and related to the content.
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