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Summary IA Checklist for IB DP Biology SL and HL
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Just answer the questions in an ordered and detailed manner to obtain the highest marks on your IA for the sciences!
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BIOLOGY IAChecklist
1.Personal Engagement
2.Exploration Answer the questions in
each section to the
3.Analysis greatest detail possible
4.Evaluation to achieve the most marks
in your IA.
5.Communication
PERSONAL
ENGAGEMENT
How is your IA topic related to your own life or
personal interests?
Where did you find the method for your experiment?
How did you change or adapt the methodology from the
original source in order to carry out your
experiment?
What is the scientific explanation behind the changes
made to the experiment?
EXPLORATION
Research Question
Does your IA have a descriptive and concise title?
Does your research question include how a controlled
change of the independent variable affects the
dependent variable in a set of conditions?
Is the type of relationship between the dependent and
independent variable investigated by your question?
Variables
Did you choose a measurable and precise dependent
variable?
Did you specify the range and the fixed change of the
dependent variable?
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Checklist
Variables (continued)
Did you choose a measurable ideally quantitative
independent variable?
Did you specify the manipulation, measurement, units
and uncertainty of measurement of the independent and
dependent variables?
Did you include at least four controlled variables?
Did you specify why you need to keep them constant
and how?
Hypothesis
Does your hypothesis provide a direct answer to your
research question?
Is your hypothesis supported by scientific research?
Did you predict a relationship between the dependent
and independent variables?
NOTE: When investigating a biological phenomena that has little scientific
information and investigations available online you may skip the hypothesis and
state that all of your findings are a first approach to the study of the variables
described in the section above!
Background
Does your IA include an observation or story that
leads to the research question?
Did you use appropriate sources for your scientific
explanations?
Does your source belong to an educational or
scientific organization?
Is your source specific and useful in answering my
questions?
Are your sources recent and accurate?
Does my background information contain any
plagiarism?
Did I use t least five external sources with authors?
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