student work, 7 score
When new IB visual arts teachers look at an artwork, they almost always overestimate the score because they don't know what a 4, 5, 6, and 7 look like. (Aspiring moderators, who are veteran IBVA teachers, get turned away all the time because they have a different idea than the master examiner about what a 4 vs a 5,6,7 should look like).
If it's this hard for teachers, imagine how hard it is for new DP1s. They have NO IDEA, even after studying the rubric, what a 4 vs 5,6,7 looks like. They think: As a 16yo artist, what's expected of me?
To solve this problem, I made this student-facing slideshow. I'm thinking in percentiles: What does a painting characteristic of the 50th versus 70th, 90th, 95th, or 99th percentile look like? How about a photo or a sculpture? And consequently, what IB score would those artworks earn?
This slideshow has its own limitations, discussed on slide 2, but it works best when presented and discussed by the teacher. My students (and maybe yours) want to see how good a 6 or 7 must be to reach the 91st or 98th percentiles, respectively.
(And I'm always reminding myself that if 16,000 students take DP Visual Arts in a given year, maybe 350 or 400 will score 7 on their EX. It's a scary-low number).
