the international baccalaureate is a non-profit organization founded in 1968. it has 3 programs...

The International Baccalaureate is a non-profit organization founded in 1968.

It has 3 programs (Early / Middle / Diploma) which are currently taught in over 3600 schools in 146 countries to over 1,100,000 students.

Its aims are to help to develop the personal, emotional and social skills to be able to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.

International Baccalaureate

IB Learner ProfileInquirersInquirers Develop natural curiosity

KnowledgeableKnowledgeable Explore ideas, locally and nationally

ThinkersThinkers Apply critical and creative thinking skills

CommunicatorsCommunicators Have ability to express ideas with confidence

PrincipledPrincipled Act with integrity and honesty

Open-MindedOpen-Minded Are open to ideas, traditions and values of other communities

CaringCaring Show empathy, compassion and respect towards others

Risk-takersRisk-takers Approach unfamiliar situations with courage and forethought

BalancedBalanced Understand the importance of an intellectual, physical and emotional balance

ReflectiveReflective Give thoughtful consideration to their own learning and experience

TOK

TOK is all about what we know and how do we know it.

The ways of knowing are language, sense perception, emotion, reason, imagination,

faith, intuition, and memory.

Computer Science

New Program

First exams May 2014

Joins the Experimental Sciences

• Changes from Group 5 to Group 4 as an non- elective subject (= can be taken instead of a science)

• Has to have options

• Has to participate in the Group 4 project

We have options

• Students (or more likely schools) must select one of following four options to study, in addition to the common program

• Object Oriented Programming (Java)

• Web Science

• Simulation and Modelling

• Databases

Project

• Common Assessment Criteria for both SL and HL

• No more mastery aspects

• Project can focus on one of the four options

• Project to be submitted digitally

Programming Language

• All students have to study a programming language

• But it does have to be Java?

• Yes, if the option is OOP (otherwise no)

• Algorithmic questions will be written in pseudocode (except for Paper 2 OOP)

Case Study

• It’s radically different

• Only for HL students

• Of a specific topic well beyond the depth presently required

• There will be a new Case Study every year

New Assessment Model

• SLP1 and HLP1 similar to present papers 1 and 2 (except no Case Study questions)

• SLP2 and HLP2 based on the option chosen

• HLP3 Case Study

Paper 1 – The CoreSL + HL HL only

Topic 1 – Systems Fundamentals

Topic 5– Abstract Data Structures

Topic 2 – Computer Organization

Topic 6 – Resource Management

Topic 3 – Networks Topic 7 – Control

Topic 4 – Computational Thinking

Paper 2 – Option Paper SL + HL with additional questions for HL

Option A Databases

Option B Modeling and Simulation

Option C Web Science

Option D OOP

Paper 3 – Case Study

High Level students only

in-depth research topic

marked externally

Internal Assessment

a) Practical project

Assessed internally

Moderated externally

b) Group 4 project

Assessed internally

Moderated internally

Computer Science AssessmentStandard Level (150 hours) Higher Level (240 hours)

Paper 1 45 % 1 hr 30 m Paper 1 40 % 2 hr 10 m

Paper 2 25 % 1 hr Paper 2 20 % 1 hr 20 m

      Paper 3 20 % 1 hr

IA 25.5 %   IA 17 %  

G4 Pr 4.5 %   G4 Pr  3 %  

Paper 1: The Core Topics (SL paper is a subset of the HL paper)

Paper 2: Option Paper (SL paper is a subset of the HL paper)

Paper 3: The Case Study (HL only)