Graduate Skills Assessment - skill levels
Listed below
are the skills that are typically displayed by people at the given levels.
A person at a given level is expected to display the skills at that level
and below.
Written communication
Organisation, thought, language and expression
Level 3
- Demonstrates
insightful and critical understanding and analysis of ideas and issues.
- Organises,
shapes and develops material effectively and coherently for the required
purpose.
- Uses
language precisely and fluently, with effective command of vocabulary,
syntax and other linguistic conventions.
Level
2
- Demonstrates
sensible and reasoned understanding and analysis of major ideas and
issues.
- Organises
and develops material in a generally consistent and coherent manner
for the required purpose.
- Uses
clear expression that communicates with the reader, selecting vocabulary
appropriately, and showing sound control of syntax and other linguistic
conventions.
Level
1
- Demonstrates
basic or incomplete understanding of major ideas and issues.
- Organises
and develops material in a basic or partial manner for the required
purpose.
- Uses
language simplistically or unevenly, with a limited range of vocabulary
and some evident faults of expression and linguistic conventions.
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Problem solving
Analysis and evaluation of information, and application to problems
Level
3
- Analyses
and categorises information in a systematic and insightful way to
identify and make subtle inferences about problems involving complex
patterns or relationships.
- Translates
and synthesises complex data, and represents generalisations related
to several variables in abstract form
- Applies
strategies to solve problems involving complex and abstract relationships
and multiple steps and conditions, and evaluates solutions to such
problems.
- Demonstrates
sufficient numeracy skills to deal with non-standard, but non-specialist,
problems.
Level
2
- Analyses
and categorises information in a logical way to identify and make
reasonable inferences about problems involving standard patterns and
relationships.
- Translates
and reorganises data presented in standard form, and identifies relationships
involving a few variables.
- Applies
key information to solve well-defined problems requiring a small number
of steps and few conditions, and evaluates solutions to such problems.
- Displays
adequate numeracy skills to deal with standard, non-specialist problems.
Level
1
- Analyses
and categorises straightforward information to identify basic problems
and make straightforward inferences.
- Translates
and reorganises straightforward data, and identifies relationships
involving two variables.
- Applies
straightforward information to solve well-defined, one or two step
problems, and evaluates solutions to such problems.
- Displays
basic numeracy skills.
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Critical
thinking
Comprehension, analysis and evaluation of viewpoints presented in text
Level 3
- Comprehends
complex and implicit meanings and relationships in text, and makes
subtle and cogent inferences about these.
- Analyses
text and uses inference to identify subtle or complex evidence, lines
of reasoning, logical flaws, arguments, assumptions, consequences,
rhetorical devices, analogies etc.
- Evaluates
credibility and validity of complex or subtle evidence, reasoning
and argument implicit in text, generating appropriate criteria for
evaluation if required.
Level
2
- Comprehends
implicit meanings and relationships in text, and makes reasonable
inferences about these.
- Analyses
text and uses inference to identify moderately complex evidence, lines
of reasoning, logical flaws, arguments, assumptions, consequences,
rhetorical devices, analogies etc.
- Evaluates
credibility and validity of moderately complex evidence, reasoning
and argument that is explicit or implicit in text, where criteria
for evaluation can be inferred.
Level
1
- Comprehends
explicit meanings and relationships in text, and makes straight forward
inferences about these.
- Analyses
text to identify straightforward or elementary evidence, lines of
reasoning, logical flaws, arguments, assumptions, consequences, rhetorical
devices, analogies etc.
- Evaluates
credibility and validity of straightforward evidence, reasoning and
argument, where criteria for evaluation are fairly explicit.
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Interpersonal understandings
Analysis of work and general social situations
Level 3
- Demonstrates
sophisticated insight into, and makes subtle inferences about, roles,
relationships, behaviours, feelings, attitudes and motives.
- Demonstrates
subtle insight into aspects of effective teamwork, leadership, negotiation
and communication.
- Recognises
potentially appropriate actions or responses to delicate or complex
interpersonal problems.
Level
2
- Demonstrates
significant insight into, and makes reasonable inferences about, roles,
relationships, behaviours, feelings, attitudes and motives.
- Demonstrates
significant insight into aspects of effective teamwork, leadership,
negotiation and communication.
- Recognises
potentially appropriate actions or responses to interpersonal problems
that may not be familiar.
Level
1
- Demonstrates
basic insight into, and makes reasonable inferences about, familiar
roles, relationships, behaviours, feelings, attitudes and motives.
- Demonstrates
basic insight into aspects of effective teamwork, leadership, negotiation
and communication.
- Recognises
potentially appropriate actions or responses to straightforward interpersonal
problems.
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