Theory of Knowledge.

What you can use

Find assessment explanations and organise your own ideas, analysis and research. Personal workspaces support your own work and teacher or supervisor guidance.

The IB Core sits alongside your six subject choices.

Topics and guidance

• Knowledge questions and good inquiry
• Knowledge, belief and justification
• Perspective, identity and communities of knowers
• Evidence, explanation and interpretation
• Bias, trust and testimony
• Knowledge and technology
• Knowledge and language
• Knowledge and politics
• Knowledge and religion
• Knowledge and indigenous societies
• History: sources and reconstruction
• Human sciences: models, measurement and people
• Natural sciences: testing and theory
• Mathematics: proof, axioms and application
• The arts: interpretation and knowledge
• Knowledge framework: scope and perspectives
• Knowledge framework: methods and tools
• Knowledge framework: ethics and responsibility

Coverage and course references

Original core revision and practice across the current TOK framework; school-specific assessment guidance and individual feedback are still required.

Check the detailed course map and assessment references for the specification covered. Later exam sessions may use a revised syllabus. Notes and practice have not been independently verified throughout.

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