Understanding Knowledge Issues
January 22nd, 2010
Knowledge issues that are most likely to support high levels of achievement are:
- open-ended questions that admit more than one possible answer
- explicitly about knowledge in itself and not subject-specific claims
- couched in terms of TOK vocabulary and concepts: the areas of knowledge, the ways of knowing and the concepts in the linking questions—belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values
- precise in terms of the relationships between these concepts
From the 2009 IBO Publication: Understanding Knowledge Issues