The collaborative sciences project, for computer scientists
The 10-hour interdisciplinary project every DP sciences student does, written from the computer science side: the 7 aims the guide sets out for the subject, the 8 essential features a project must have, what a computer science student actually contributes to a team of biologists and chemists, and why it is not a group internal assessment.
- 10 hours
- No IB marks
- Still required
- SL and HL alike
Free to use. Students join their class with a code from their teacher; teachers can create classes and track progress.
What is inside
- What the CSP actually isA mixed team from across the DP sciences, one real-world issue, a product that is presented but never marked, and a 100-word reflection as the evidence it happened.
- Your role in the teamGetting data off the instruments, building the model, making the whole team's data legible, and owning the questions about the data.
- The aims, for computer scienceAll 7 aims paired with the gloss the guide writes for computer science - the only place in the document the subject appears.
- Essential and desirable featuresThe 8 features every CSP must have, separated from the ones a good project adds.
- Not the internal assessmentA side-by-side on who does the work, what is marked, what you hand over and where the topic comes from.
Preview
The CSP is not a group internal assessment
Students routinely read the CSP as a group version of the IA. Almost nothing that is true of one is true of the other.
| Collaborative sciences project | Internal assessment | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | A team, drawn from across the DP sciences. | You, alone, for a named client. |
| Marks | None from the IB. No criteria, no moderation, no effect on your grade. | 30 marks over 5 criteria, and part of your final grade. |
| What is judged | Nothing is marked. You still produce and present something - it is just not judged. | The product, and the documentation written about building it. |
| Hours | 10, the same at SL and HL. | 35, the same at SL and HL. |
| What you hand over | A 100-word reflection, kept by your school as evidence. | Three files - product, 2,000 words of documentation and a video - submitted to the IB. |
| Where the topic comes from | A local issue with global significance, chosen with the team. | A real problem belonging to a real client who is not you. |