ACS Egham Art Department Help the IB Setup New Video Assessments

Final assessment in the Diploma Programme Visual Arts course involves an interview with the student, who will talk about the artwork completed and investigations undertaken throughout the course.

This interview is the opportunity for the student to provide background information and explain some of the research, planning and thinking behind the various pieces on display.

For many years the person doing the interview has been an IB visiting art examiner, but this year is the last year that schools will have this visit: from 2013 onwards, the teacher will do the interviewing, and this interview will be recorded and then sent to the IB.

Many IB art teachers have asked for help and guidance over the interview process - for example, what questions should they ask, how formal should the interview be etc.

As Head of Arts, and an experienced visiting examiner and the IB Visual Arts Deputy Chief Examiner I was asked if an IB cameraman could come to our school to film some sample interviews, with some of our grade 12 IBDP visual arts students, in order to help the wider visual arts teaching community. ACS Egham prides itself on being a leader in delivering IB courses of the three programmes - PYP, MYP and DIPLOMA and so this was an easy decision to make. Many fellow faculty members also take part in working for the IB as examiners, moderators, course developers or evaluation school visit team members.

These films will be made available through the password-protected IB "Online Curriculum Centre" so that IB art teachers all over the world could see  some examples the interview process. On January 18^th the IB filmed art interviews with four grade 12 DP art students: Filip, Anna, Franzi and Michaela (work displayed in this post.)

This interviews are currently being edited before being uploaded to the OCC, but the IB have already expressed their gratitude and appreciation of our students' willingness to help the IB teaching community. The IB will share some video clips in the near future and we will hopefully be able to show some here on the On Campus part of the website.

Author: Mr Vaughan - Head of Arts