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 and effective knowledge and cognitive skills must be demonstrated to provide professional and competent community welfare support and emergency and disaster management practice. - 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, 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, relevant to the area. Demonstration of specified knowledge is a requirement for course accreditation and fieldwork placements. - 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 and in fieldwork placement 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 safe and effective humanitarian aid and emergency and disaster management studies. - 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
- Construct written text in an appropriate and scholarly manner for the intended audience.
- 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 and professional practices. The ability to read, decode, interpret, and comprehend multiple sources of information is fundamental to safe and effective provision of humanitarian assistance and disaster management. - 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
- Producing accurate and accessible notes that meet legal and professional fieldwork placement requirements.
Numeracy: This relates to the ability to understand and work with numbers.
- Introduction
Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for sound and effective academic and professional practice. - Description of inherent requirement
Student interprets and correctly applies/analyses data, measurements, and numerical criteria. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent numeracy skills are required to analyse and synthesise complex information, problems and concepts that contribute to professional practice. - 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 to complete a range of activities
- Demonstrating accurate interpretation of mathematical calculations in response to academic tasks and assessment items.