History IA Short Course

Course teacher – Melina teaches IB History, Global Politics and supervises Extended Essays and Internal assessments. She has been an Examiner for the IB since 2014. She holds a Masters in Sociology and as an examiner she has a very good eye on what students need to improve and a clear understanding of the marking material to help students improve their scores. Look at her full profile here.

Course objectives

• Make progress on your Internal Assessment (IA) during the summer break.
• Get the guidance, structure, and motivation needed to move forward with confidence.

Cost – 300 Swiss Francs – 6 hours of tuition

Maximum class size – 10 students

Dates – Daily, online 19^th – 22^nd August (inclusive) 

Time – 13:00 – 14:30 CET

History IA course will cover:

• IA rubric and assessment criteria.
• What distinguishes top-scoring IAs and how to avoid common pitfalls.
• How to write a research question, how to research and make hypotheses.
• Effective use of AI (without plagiarism) & digital tools to support the investigation.
• Work with real life examples to learn dos and don’ts for successful research
• Make sure your Section B has sufficient argumentative and evaluation work and that is fully supported by sources
• Efficient ways to distribute word count and select useful sources to get a high marking IA.

The students finish the course with tools to build or refine their research question and support to select effective and feasible sources and build a strong argument in the investigation. All based on the latest demands of the IB Organisation.

Additionally, they will have a clear understanding of the demands of the Reflection criterion and will be able to tailor their Section C to the information presented in their first two sections.

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