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Learn how to write a top-notch IA report in IB Diploma Psychology with tips on organization, language, tenses, and pronouns. This guide covers everything from introduction to evaluation.
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Writing the IA Report: Introduction and Evaluation IB Diploma Psychology
Language: Tenses The Introduction should mostly be written in the present tense except when you are describing the study you replicated. • The study conducted by …. • The aim is… • The Research Hypothesis is… The Exploration should be in past tense. • The experiment used a …. design. • There were 18 students in our sample taken from a target population made up of … • The participants signed an informed consent form…
Language: Tenses The Analysisshould mostly be written in past tense. • The results were … • The Standard Deviation was … • The test showed that … The Evaluation should be mostly written in past tense. • The results supported the findings of … • One strength of our study was … • There werevariables we did not control well…
Language: Pronouns The Introduction should written in a formal and impersonal style. • The aim is… • The Research Hypothesis is… The Exploration should generally be written in a formal and impersonal style but you can use “we”. • We constructed a list of words… • We flipped a coin …
Language: Pronouns The Analysisshould mostly be written in a formal and impersonal style but you can use “I”. • I analysed the data using …The Standard Deviation was … • The null hypothesis was rejected… • I rejected the null hypothesis. The Evaluation should be mostly written in an a formal and impersonal style but you can use “we” and “our”. • It is difficult to generalize our findings… • A limitation of this study was that we used independent measures design.