IB Visual Arts HL Internal Assessment Example

The student shows sustained experimentation across a very wide range of media, forms, and techniques.

The student's material choices are usually well matched to the ideas they are exploring.

The student tests, adapts, and refines processes with clear technical awareness rather than relying on first attempts.

The student transfers learning from one artwork to another, which shows genuine developing control.

Some early experimentation is still intuitive rather than fully controlled.

A few techniques start strongly but are not always pushed as far as they could be.

At times the technical exploration is more successful than the final precision of execution.

The student investigates artists in a way that clearly influences their own studio decisions.

The student moves beyond description by explaining how formal choices such as colour, texture, light, structure, and gaze affect meaning.

The student makes several explicit links between research and their own intentions.

The student shows that artist research is shaping their own developing practice rather than sitting separately from it.

Some artist references are analysed more deeply than others.

A few connections remain broad or repetitive rather than sharply analytical.

Source handling and bibliography details are not always fully consistent.