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©Board of Studies NSW (1999), The NSW HSC Assessment Support Document.
Syllabus outcomes, objectives, performance bands and examination question's have key words that state what students are expected to be able to do. A glossary of key words has been developed to help provide a common language and consistent meaning in the Higher School Certificate documents.
Using the glossary will help teachers and students understand what is expected in responses to examinations and assessment tasks.
- Account
- Account for: state reasons for, report on. Give an
account of: narrate a series of events or transactions
- Analyse
- Identify components and the relationship between them;
draw out and relate implications
- Apply
- Use, utilise, employ in a particular situation
- Appreciate
- Make a judgement about the value of
- Assess
- Make a judgement of value, quality, outcomes, results
or size
- Calculate
- Ascertain/ determine from given facts, figures or
information
- Clarify
- Make clear or plain
- Classify
- Arrange or include in classes/ categories
- Compare
- Show how things are similar or different
- Construct
- Make; build; put together item or arguments
- Contrast
- Show how things are different or opposite
- Critically (analysis/evaluation)
- Add a degree or level of accuracy depth, knowledge and
understanding, logic, questioning, reflection and quality
to (analysis/evaluation)
- Deduce
- Draw conclusions
- Define
- State meaning and identify essential qualities
- Demonstrate
- Show by example
- Describe
- Provide characteristics and features
- Discuss
- Identify issues and provide points for and/ or against
- Distinguish
- Recognise or note/ indicate as being distinct or
different from; to note differences between
- Evaluate
- Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value
of
- Examine
- Inquire into
- Explain
- Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between
things evident; provide why and/or how
- Extract
- choose relevant and/ or appropriate details
- Extrapolate
- Infer from what is known
- Identify
- Recognise and name
- Interpret
- Draw meaning from
- Investigate
- Plan, inquire into and draw conclusions about
- Justify
- Support an argument or conclusion
- Outline
- Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of
- Predict
- Suggest what may happen based on available information
- Propose
- Put forward (for example a point of view, idea,
argument, suggestion) for consideration or action
- Recall
- Present remembered ideas, facts or experiences
- Recommend
- Provide reasons in favour
- Recount
- Retell a series of events
- Summarise
- Express, concisely, the relevant details
- Synthesise
- Putting together various elements to make a whole
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