IB Visual Arts SL Internal Assessment Example

The student demonstrates sustained experimentation across a wide range of media and forms, including sculpture, drawing, painting, digital work, paper processes, and assemblage.

The student's material choices are usually highly purposeful and closely tied to ideas about memory, childhood, nostalgia, and history.

The student documents testing, revision, and construction clearly, showing that they understand how process decisions shape outcomes.

The student responds thoughtfully to technical limitations and often improves a work through practical adjustment rather than leaving it unresolved.

Some outcomes still show technical limitations such as cracking, proportion issues, fragile joins, and uneven finish.

A few decisions would benefit from even more explicit problem-solving during making, not only after the issue has already appeared.

At times the execution is less controlled than the ambition of the idea, so a little more consistency would strengthen the overall finish.

The student investigates a relevant and varied group of artists and art-making practices.

The student identifies specific formal and material features rather than only giving general reactions.

The student makes clear connections between their research and their own developing work, showing that the investigation affects their decisions.

The student often adapts ideas from artists in a personal way rather than copying them directly.

Some of the student's critical reading stays broad or descriptive instead of probing the artist’s methods in greater depth.

A few claims would be stronger if supported with more close visual evidence from the artwork itself.

At times the links between the reference artist and the student's own response could be explained in a more analytical and less formulaic way.