“…The global growth of the IBDP was evidenced in internal research (IBO, 2022b), Belal (2017) indicated that the IBDP in the Middle East has grown disproportionately and provided data to confirm her statement, while also noting that with regard to the Middle East ‘the research related to study of the outcomes of the IBDP’ was lacking (p 20). Ideally, IM is conceptually suited and therefore has a flexibility in applying and interpretating for the varied IBDP disciplines (Poonoosamy, 2016) to appeal to all regions, though this may be a double-edged sword as it is often left to the educator to implement (Chernoff, 2021). In addition, according to research arguing that IM remains foundational to the IBO and the IBDP (Belal, 2017), IM continues to conceptually evolve (Dickson et al, 2018; Gardner-McTaggart, 2016) and this challenges the ease of implementing (Wasner, 2016).…”