The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills: 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 enable students to complete course academic requirements. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- The ability to process information relevant to academic requirements
- The ability to integrate, reflect on and implement theoretical knowledge, within the learning environment and professional settings.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Capacity to complete course requirements is based on comprehensive knowledge that must be 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.
Literacy (language): This relates to the ability to acquire, understand, and apply information in a scholarly manner.
- Introduction
Competent literacy skills 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 ensure the development of appropriate responses to academic assessment tasks.
The ability to read, decode, interpret, and comprehend multiple sources of information is fundamental to ensure the development of appropriate and effective responses to academic assessment tasks. - 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 an 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 safe and effective calculations in delivery of services in the health care sector. - Description of inherent requirement
Student interprets and correctly applies data, measurements, and numerical criteria. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent application of numeracy skills is essential in the Bachelor of Health Science to complete course requirements. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable demonstration of a capacity to interpret and apply concepts and processes appropriately in a timely, accurate and effective manner. - Exemplars:
- Performing accurate mathematical calculations
- Demonstrating accurate interpretation of mathematical calculations.