Questioning

1. Knowledge: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Be able to tell about issues/information
• Describe their new knowledge
• Write about what they have learnt
• Orally present information
• Present a short skit outlining the information/knowledge
• Produce a time line of events
• Reveal individual facts about the information
• Outline the information in bullet points
• Recite information i.e. poetry/prose

 2. Comprehension: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Being able to present a visual/mind map of their understanding.
• Summarize the information in a new format.
• Being able to interpret or re-tell the information in different settings/formats.
• Being able to compare the new information with existing information and provide relationships between the two.
• Be able to predict the implications of the new information/knowledge.
• Provide additional examples concerning the new knowledge/information.
• Being able to compose a flow chart of events with possible loops and relationships.

3. Application: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Illustrate principles and concepts
• Complete incomplete scenarios based on the new knowledge
• Design strategies and processes based on the new knowledge
• Construct models/prototypes of processes, systems, environments or products
• Develop relational mind maps
• Teach others the principles/knowledge that have been learnt
• Apply the information to a new situation
• Develop questionnaires/surveys

 4. Analysis: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Be able to explain the issues and concepts explained in another media or format
• Be able to identify specific events that led to certain outcomes.
• Investigate events and produce sequences or time lines showing the development of the plot/news item/historical event.
• Be able to distinguish between fact and opinion.
• Use artistic tools, mathematical models, graphs, poetry or other tools to interpret and portray an event, either fictitious or real.
• Suggest underlying themes or plots in stories/events.
• Suggest possible scientific/literary projections into the future.

 5. Synthesis: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Create presentations that draw from information in different formats.
• From research be able to predict possible outcomes.
• Provide possible reasons for observed events, organisational decisions, human behaviours and moral decisions.
• From research propose possible alternative solutions to issues and problems.
• Describe their feelings on social issues providing good argument.
• Propose a solution, process or system to a social concern, need or opportunity or a local issue supplying rational argument and references.
• Write a play/script depicting an issue that you have researched where the solution is implied rather than stated

 6. Evaluation: In constructing questions and tasks in this area students will:

• Can suggest modifications to a product, service, system, environment or argument following assessment.
• After listening to argument judge which position you prefer giving reasons.
• Prioritise your work using set criteria.
• Following research debate a local, national or international issue.
• Verify a statement as being a judgement, an opinion or a fact.
• Be able to state whether a rule, law or guideline is effective and suggest modifications.
• Be able to decide on a set of criteria/rules for a game, selection panel, safety plan or other system/process.
• Based on qualitative/quantitative research rate the best solution, response or position on a particular issue.

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