Assessment Language Reviewer

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Assessment Language Reviewers are responsible for ensuring that the content of the final student-ready IB language assessment is free from spelling and grammatical errors.

Benefits of becoming an IB Assessment Language Reviewer

  • Play a critical role within the IB examination and assessment process. 
  • Work within a diverse community comprising IB academic staff, teachers, and external consultants.
  • Improve knowledge, skills and performance through professional development training.

Responsibilities 

An Assessment Language Reviewer may be asked to complete one of the following two tasks for a given set of examinations:

  • Second Native Speaker — proofread the question papers checking for spelling and grammatical errors in the final assessment and confirms that the authentic texts reproduced in the assessment match the original published texts.
  • Reviser — ensure the final translated assessment materials are an accurate reflection of the final English assessment materials.

Requirements 

  • Applicants must be a native speaker of the language of the subject for which they are applying.
  • Applicants must have a degree or equivalent in the subject (or a related subject) for which they are applying.
  • Applicants must have proofreading experience.
  • Applicants must have the ability to communicate, read documents and write reports in English.

How to become an IB Assessment Language Reviewer 

When IB Assessment Language Reviewer vacancies are available, they will appear on our Join IBEN webpage in addition to the vacancies list below. Please note, that the recruitment process can take up to six months after the closing date, during which you may be asked to complete additional tasks. 

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Before applying, please review our conflicts of interest information.

In alignment with the IB Academic Honesty Policy, all work and information submitted by applicants during either the application process or training needs to comply with the following statement: Applicants need to be aware that the IB does not regard any work produced—even only in part— by such tools to be their own. Therefore, as with any quote or material from another source, it must be clear that any AI-generated text, image or graph included in a piece of work has been copied from such software. The software must be credited in the body of the text and appropriately referenced in the bibliography. If this is not done, the applicant (training participant) would be misrepresenting content—as it was not originally written by them—which is a form of academic misconduct.