Cognitive and Intellectual Skills

Cognitive and Intellectual Skills
You should be able to: critically evaluate evidence, arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data
some of which are at the forefront of a discipline (and that may be incomplete) to devise and sustain
arguments, to make judgements and/or solve problems; describe and comment upon particular aspects of
current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline Your work must contain evidence of
logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For example, to examine and break information down
into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast information. This means not just describing
what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At what cost? At all times, you must provide
justification for your arguments and judgements. Evidence that you have reflected upon the ideas of others
within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned and informed debate within your work.
Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound judgements and convincing
arguments using data and concepts. Sound, valid conclusions are necessary and must be derived from the
content of your work. Where relevant, alternative solutions and recommendations may be proposed.
Guidance specific to this assessment: Your responses to the tasks should be underpinned with reference
appropriate evidence.
4. Practical Skills
At level 6, you should be able to apply the methods and techniques that you have learned to review,
consolidate, extend and apply your knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects. You
will deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry relevant to the discipline, and apply
them in complex and unpredictable contexts, to devise and sustain arguments and/or to solve problems. You
should be able to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution – or identify a range of solutions. You
should be able to demonstrate how the subject-related concepts and ideas relate to real world situations
and/or a particular context. How do they work in practice? You will deploy models, methods, techniques,
and/or theories, in that context or circumstances, to assess current situations, perhaps to formulate plans or
solutions to solve problems, or to create artefacts, some of which may be innovative and creative. This is
likely to involve, for instance, the use of real world artefacts, examples and cases, the application of a model
within an organisation and/or benchmarking one theory or organisation against others based on stated
criteria. You should show awareness of the limitations of concepts and theories when applied in particular
contexts.
Guidance specific to this assessment: You should demonstrate you are able to apply the knowledge
gained and/or tools learned in the course of the module to the assessment task.
5. Transferable Skills for Life and Professional Practice
Your work must provide evidence of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for graduate-level
employment requiring the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility and decision-making in complex
and unpredictable circumstances. This includes demonstrating: the learning ability for professional
development to advance existing skills and acquire new competences of a professional nature that will enable
you to assume significant responsibility within organisations; that you can initiate and complete tasks and
procedures, whether individually and/or collaboratively; that you can use appropriate media to effectively
communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist
audiences; fluency of expression; clarity and effectiveness in presentation and organisation. Work should be
coherent and well-structured in presentation and organisation