The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills: Acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think. Cognitive skills include verbal and spatial abilities, concentration, memory, perception, reasoning, planning and organisation, flexible thinking, and problem solving.
- Introduction
Consistent knowledge and effective cognitive skills must be demonstrated to provide safe, appropriate, and professional services in science and environmental science. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- The ability to process information relevant to academic requirements or practice
- The ability to integrate and implement knowledge and practice.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Completion of course requirements and safe and effective practice of environmental science and science is based on comprehensive knowledge that is sourced, understood and applied appropriately. - Adjustments
Adjustments must ensure that a clear demonstration of knowledge and cognitive skills is not compromised or impeded. - Exemplars:
- Ability to conceptualise and use appropriate knowledge and theoretical concepts in response to academic assessment tasks
- Appropriate application of knowledge and procedures in practical settings.
Literacy (language): This relates to the ability to acquire, understand, and apply information in a scholarly manner.
- Introduction
Competent literacy skills, in English, are essential to develop and deliver professional, appropriate, and effective responses to academic assessment tasks. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The ability to acquire information and accurately convey appropriate, effective messages
- The ability to read and comprehend a range of literature and information
- The capacity to understand and implement academic conventions to construct written text in a scholarly manner.
- Justification of inherent requirement
The ability to acquire information and to accurately convey ideas is fundamental to developing appropriate responses to academic assessment tasks. This includes the ability to read, decode, interpret, and comprehend multiple sources of information and synthesise and apply this information to complete a task, solve a problem, or answer a question. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable demonstration of a capacity to effectively acquire, comprehend, apply, and communicate accurate information. - Exemplars:
- Applying knowledge of both theory and practice in the development of appropriate responses to academic assessment tasks
- Paraphrasing, summarising, and referencing in accordance with appropriate academic conventions in written assignments.
Numeracy: This relates to the ability to understand and work with numbers.
- Introduction
Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for many applications within the science and environmental science disciplines. - Description of inherent requirement
Student accurately uses and interprets data and incorporates numerical information to solve problems and as a basis for understanding of scientific or environmental issues. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent application of numeracy skills is essential in science and environmental science to facilitate safe, accurate and effective practice. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable demonstration of a capacity to interpret and apply numerical concepts and processes appropriately in a timely, accurate and effective manner. - Exemplars:
- Performing accurate mathematical calculations
- Accurate interpretation of numerical data.