TOK Abb.
Areas of Knowledge
Ways of Knowing
Knowledge Framework
The Place of TOK in the IBDP
100
AOK & WOK
What are Areas of Knowledge & Ways of Knowing
100
Covers almost everything creative that people do, from dance to sculpture to painting to creative writing (and reading).
What is The Arts
100
This way of knowing is difficult to define, but it is key to being creative and solving problems.
What is imagination?
100
What knowledge the AOK maps out, and how it's used.
What is Scope/Applications?
100
Within the DP Program, TOK belongs to this.
What is the core?
200
RLS
What is Real-life Situation
200
This area of knowledge makes claims about the natural world, and attempts to find laws by which the world works.
What are the Natural Sciences?
200
Whether spoken or written, this way of knowing is vitally important way of communicating knowledge?
What is language?
200
A description of how the specialist might speak, or what he might speak about, in a particular AOK.
What is Concepts and Language/Jargon?
200
TOK, in combination with the EE, can help you earn this number of points towards your final DP score.
What is 3?
300
KQ
What is Knowledge Question
300
Deals with knowing the difference between right and wrong.
What is Ethics?
300
Although, this is an absolutely vital way of knowing, people disagree about whether or not it gives us an accurate picture of the outside world.
What is sense perception?
300
How knowledge in each AOK is gained, and the processes used in the AOK to gain it.
What is methodology?
300
You must pass your TOK examination in order to receive this.
What is a DP diploma?
400
KF
What is Knowledge Framework
400
This is not science done in the laboratory, rather it's the scientific study of human behavior and social interaction.
What are the Human Sciences?
400
This way of knowing focuses on working things out logically.
What is reason?
400
How the AOK has developed over time.
What is historical development?
400
This assessment can be up to 1,600 words and will be graded by an examiner on a scale of up to 10 marks.
What is the TOK essay?
500
KC
What is Knowledge Claim
500
Only in this area of knowledge would so many people claim that their knowledge is absolutely certain and able to be shown using rigorous logical proof.
What is Mathematics?
500
Sometimes seen as the opposite of reason this way of of knowing can be useful when we need to make quick judgments.
What is intuition.
500
How the knowledge in each AOK links with what you know, and how it becomes a part of shared knowledge.
What is Links with/to personal knowledge?
500
This can be up to 10 minutes long per person and completed either individually or in groups.
What is the TOK presentation?