An Approach using Life-Effectiveness Questionnaire (Leq) to Measure Development of IB Learner Profile

Abstract

Fundamental aims of the International Baccalaureate are delivered through the successful development of students’ Learner Profile. The measurement of the growth of a student’s development of their Learner Profile may be measurable through a life-effectiveness questionnaire. This study seeks to examine if an existing life-effectiveness questionnaire is suitable to measure the students’ perceived personal development gains and how these relate to the International Baccalaureate’s Learner Profile Attributes as well as the its Approaches to Learning within its Middle Years Programme. A mixed method approach (quantitative and qualitative) was used in this study. A pre-test and post-test using survey questionnaire were conducted among 20 students in May 2014, and semi-structured interview was conducted among expedition leader and a teacher in-charge of a student. The results indicate that the Life-effectiveness questionnaire instrument was able to identify significant positive gains in certain life-effectiveness, particularly self-confidence and these indicate the possibility of similar positive development in students’ Learner Profile attributes. The outcome of the results suggests that the next step forward is to develop a specific Life-effectiveness questionnaire instrument for IB schools to measure the development of the Learner profile and certain ATL Skills over time.International Baccalaureate Learne