Graduate Skills Assessment - skill levels

http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/gradatt/gsalevels.html

Written communication

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Problem solving

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Critical thinking

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Interpersonal understandings

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.