How does wellbeing look in a school and how can school support student who are struggling with different aspect of their personal and school life.

“Generic criterion (referencing, communication, reference to IB ideals and associated theory for those on this route): Satisfactory.

There are some inconsistencies in your approach to referencing.  This can be easily rectified with the help from Cite Them Right.  

Nwaekka, you have made a good attempt with part 1 of the assignment but unfortunately, you have misunderstood the task in part 2 and this has resulted in an overall fail.  You will have the opportunity to resubmit part 2 of the assignment again.  

In part 1 of the assignment, you have written four annotated bibliographies using good quality papers.  In each case, you have made a very good attempt to succinctly give an overview of the paper and identify critical points that the authors raises as well as outlining some limitations.  

In part 2 you have not addressed the assessment criteria and this has resulted in an unsatisfactory. 

The first section started off well with links to the IB curriculum.  However, you then diverged into discussing general issues of wellbeing instead of focussing on the intervention for practice.  This is the critical part of the assignment.  By describing other aspects of wellbeing, although related,  this was not done to a masters standard.  This would involves you engaging with a wider range of academic research and consistently using this to support your discussion.  The key to this is your approach to planning and engagement with literature.  This is something that you will be able to address in the resubmission.  

Nwanneka, I would be happy to meet with you before you submit your assignment.  Please contact me to make an appointment.  

Next steps: 

Avoid reporting on someone else’s paper – instead you are writing your own paper and using their literature to support your structured argument.  

Engage with a range of academic literature.  Then  use this range of perspectives, ideas, critical knowledge when you are creating your own discussion.  

Be more rigorous in planning your assignment. This must involve continuous engagement with the assessment task and criteria.  This will help you to remain on task and focus what you intend to achieve in your discussion.  

Use literature that is current – really within 10 years is preferable.