Tok guide TOK Markus Lajunen A QUICK GUIDE TO TOK PRESENTATION AND TOK ESSAY Knowledge Questions The term knowledge question is essential to TOK course and its assessment Students who can e ?ectively identify and address knowledge questions in TOK present

TOK Markus Lajunen A QUICK GUIDE TO TOK PRESENTATION AND TOK ESSAY Knowledge Questions The term knowledge question is essential to TOK course and its assessment Students who can e ?ectively identify and address knowledge questions in TOK presentation and TOK essay will most likely excel in them To put it brie y the whole point of the presentation and essay tasks is to deal with knowledge questions Knowledge questions are questions about knowledge Instead of focusing on speci ?c content they focus on how knowledge is constructed and evaluated They can relate to any aspect of knowledge like acquisition production and acceptance of knowledge In general knowledge questions are ? open ended questions that admit more than one possible answer ? explicitly about knowledge in itself and NOT subject-speci ?c claims ? couched in terms of TOK vocabulary and concepts WOKs AOKs and terms such as truth evidence and justi ?cation ? precise in terms of relationships between these concepts A good TOK presentation and TOK essay covers all the dimensions of knowledge questions mentioned above On the following page you can ?nd a table that describes a progression of knowledge questions The table may help you to identify and formulate knowledge questions This document is compiled from IBO Theory of knowledge guide and IBO guide Understanding knowledge issues Some parts are taken exactly as they appear in the guides and some parts are simpli ?ed drastically to serve this document better CTOK Markus Lajunen LEVEL DESCRIPTOR EXAMPLE A EXAMPLE B EXAMPLE C An open ended question Explicitly about To what extent knowledge What is about a can the human What if anything Couched in scienti ?c question sciences use do optical ? ? ? GOOD terms of TOK that makes it mathematical illusions tell us vocabulary and convincing and techniques to about sense concepts unconvincing make accurate perception and Precise in terms predictions truth of relationships between these concepts May be How can we an open ended decide if How can we use What can we learn INTERMEDIATE question acupuncture models to predict from optical explicitly about works or not crime waves illusions ? ? ? knowledge May be Will predictions in POOR a closed question Does acupuncture teenage smoking Why do optical implicitly about work turn out to be illusions happen knowledge correct May be a statement or a NOT A description KNOWLEDGE - a closed question Traditional Stopping Optical illusions QUESTION - a subject-speci ?c medicine teenagers smoking question rather than about knowledge in itself REAL-LIFE SITUATION My uncle went to A new An optical illusion an acupuncturist government policy CTOK ? ? ? Markus Lajunen TOK Presentation TOK presentation weights in overall assessment of TOK In TOK presentation students are expected to identify and explore a knowledge question raised by a real-life situation This real-life situation may arise from a local domain or from a wider global scope With this in mind TOK presentation topic can be almost anything but it must be related to

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