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Rachel Rabanowitz

Visual stimuli for oral

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Nitisha Hazareesing
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Hi all,
It will be my 1st time doing MYP French orals and the guide is not very clear about the visual stimuli. It says in the timings table 'The student is shown a multimodal stimulus relating to a topic or theme of the course', which to me indicates they don't choose, but in the distribution of multimodal stimuli table it says 'Student 1 A1+B1, Student 2 A1+C1, etc..'
For DP the guide clearly says that the student is shown 2 stimuli and they choose 1. Is it the same for MYP because it also says that 'the same 5 stimuli [1 from each theme] can be used for up to 10 students' (my case this year)
A colleague told me she has 5 stimuli face down on a table, the student picks 2, looks at them and chooses 1 for their exam.
Can someone shed light on how exactly we are supposed to proceed?
Thank you in advance :)


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  1. Post by Nitisha Hazareesing
    Re: Visual stimuli for oral

    Hi Rachel,
    The description of the task says you give one image to the student.
    Then further down in the guide it gives a combination of prompts that you can have.
    I asked IB about this inconsistency.
    The person in charge of exam management mentioned that students should be given one image.
    But since the guide is contradictory... inconsistent..they wouldn't comment negatively if students are given 2 prompts to choose from. 
    So its ok to give two prompts and the student chooses one.
    To answer your question.. these proposals of combinations etc are put in place to ensure academic integrity. No risk of students sharing information about which image they got.
    Just try to give combinations that would make it impossible for students to know or predict which image they will get.
    During Covid period, there was a compromise. You could give students up to 5 images.
    This is not the case anymore.
    What your colleague is doing with 5 images facedown etc is not recommended. Orals stimuli are not determined by lucky draw. This is not part of instructions.
    There was a document on MyIB - Foires aux questions - that stipulated only one image is to be given(see screenshot).
    You can give either one or two for the student to choose from(that seems fair).
    Regards
    Nitisha 

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  2. Parent of this post↑ Reply to Nitisha Hazareesing from Rachel Rabanowitz
    Re: Visual stimuli for oral
    Thank you for your prompt reply, Nitisha.
    Bonne journée/soirée/nuit selon le fuseau horaire!
    :)
  3. Post by Nitisha Hazareesing
    Re: Visual stimuli for oral
    Hi Rachel,
    I am attaching the MYP eassessment FAQ -that is downloadable on MyIB.
    The information is quite clear.
    Just be mindful that this document indicates that the Speaking is on 32 marks.
    The most recent updates in the guide (Aug22) indicates 24 marks for the Speaking.
    This document was published in view of the May22 Eassessment -  prior to the update.
    Hope it helps.
    Regards
    Nitisha
    PDF document FAQ MYP EASSESSMENT - ENGLISH.pdf
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  4. Parent of this post↑ Reply to Nitisha Hazareesing from Rachel Rabanowitz
    Re: Visual stimuli for oral
    Super, merci :)
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