IBDP Assessment Policy(excerpt from policy)
According to the IBDP Assessment Principles and Practices–Quality Assessments in a Digital Age:
The following five points summarize the underlying principles of IB assessment. IB assessments must:
be valid for the purposes which they are intended for. This means they must be balanced between the conflicting demands of construct relevance, reliability, fairness (that is, no bias), comparability with alternatives, and manageability for candidates, schools, and the IB;
have a positive backwash effect, that is, their design must encourage good quality teaching and learning;
be appropriate to the widest possible range of candidates, allowing them to demonstrate their personal level of achievement;
be part of the context of the wider IB programme, not considered in isolation. Does it support the concurrency of learning and the overall learner experience?
support the IB’s wider mission and student competencies, especially inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, and internationally minded.
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