Internal Assessment (IA)
Internal assessments (IAs) are a fundamental and incredibly annoying part of the IB diploma program. They are an assignment that must be completed for every IB course you take (yes, even math). IAs have no universal structure or requirements because they are completely different from class to class. The most common type of IA is a paper written on a subject in that class. The history IA, for example, requires you to write an investigation on a particular historical topic. It has its own rubric, word
length, and specifications. The biology IA requires you to conduct an experiment and present and analyze your data. The computer science IA requires you to write a complex program and submit the code along with a paper explaining it. For some classes, such as english and spanish, the IA is not a paper, but an oral presentation. Unlike with other IB assignments, the IA is graded by your teacher, not IB (hence the name, Internal Assessment). For this reason, it is very important you pay attention to what your teacher tells you.