From the Horse's Mouth

Guys,

Here are the observations from the good people at the IB on RIs in 2012.

Recommendations for the teaching of future candidates

 Make sure the play/piece of theatre is from the practice.

 Make sure every single piece of evidence and information presented is attributed. It is 
better to attribute as much as you can whether through footnotes, endnotes or within the 
body of the text.

 Research should be consistently applied to the play/piece of theatre.

 Candidates should continue to draft and develop their questions as they research. The 
narrower the question the more in depth the answer and the application of the research.

 The register should be analytical rather than descriptive, with the candidate presenting 
the research, analyzing it and then communicating how this would be applied to a 
play/piece of theatre.

 The quality of visuals is important. They need to be clearly reproduced and of an 
adequate size so that any points they are making can be clearly seen. If colour is 
significant then the visuals should be in colour.

 Candidates need to include visuals especially in Research Investigations that focus on 
design

Comments.  Questions.  Observations.

What does this mean for us?