Understanding the Scoring Guidelines
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scoring guidelines/ˈskɔːrɪŋ ˈɡaɪdlaɪnz/ | Criteria describing how a piece of work is assessed and how marks or scores are assigned. |
Know how you are judged
- Both sections are scored against published scoring guidelines 评分标准.
- Knowing them helps you build a stronger portfolio.
- The guidelines describe levels from weak to excellent.
What each section rewards
- The Sustained Investigation is scored on inquiry and on practice, experimentation, and revision.
- Selected Works are scored on 2-D skills and the synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas.
- Readers use visual evidence in the work plus your writing.
The scoring guidelines' language ladder, from rudimentary to advanced
Which section's criterion?
Sort each criterion by the section it applies to.
The Selected Works section is scored mainly on 2-D skills and...
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Selected Works are scored on 2-D skills and synthesis.
Both portfolio sections are scored against published ____ guidelines.
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The scoring guidelines describe levels from weak to excellent.
Select all things readers use to score the portfolio.
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Visual evidence, writing, and the guidelines are used; fame is not.
Match each section to its criteria.
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SI = inquiry; Selected Works = skills; guidelines = the standard.
Design with the criteria in mind
- Design your work with the criteria in mind — not to a formula.
- The top levels show clear, sustained, well-integrated evidence.
- Understanding the guidelines is a tool, not a checklist to fake.
You should design your work to genuinely meet the criteria, not fake evidence.
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Use the scoring guidelines to guide honest work.
Know the scoring guidelines, but do not paint to a formula. The guidelines reward genuine inquiry, experimentation, revision, skill, and synthesis — not boxes ticked mechanically. Use them to guide honest work, not to fake evidence of a process you did not actually do.
A student reads the scoring guidelines and realises her Sustained Investigation shows finished works but little experimentation. So she genuinely goes back, tries new processes, and documents them. She is not faking — she is using the criteria to strengthen real work.
Both sections are scored against the scoring guidelines: the Sustained Investigation on inquiry and practice/experimentation/revision; Selected Works on 2-D skills and synthesis. Readers use visual evidence plus your writing. Design with the criteria in mind — to guide honest work, not to fake it.
Write from real experiments rather than fake notes
- The Sustained Investigation shows finished work and no tests.
- The student considers writing process notes for tests that never happened.
A Sustained Investigation shows only finished work. The student thinks of writing notes about experiments that never happened. What should they do instead, and what is each section scored on?
The criteria guide honest work. They are not a script for invented evidence.
What should the student add?
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Only experiments that happened can show practice, experimentation and revision.