ALARM Scaffold HSC Key Words For more on ALARM see: http://www.virtuallibrary.info/alarm.html Topic Concept: Essential idea of topic or summation Judgment on the development process and/or its change of procedures in the process over time How are the various features/impacts/effects interrelated? Clarify Name and Define: Define What? Identify Components/elements/ steps/stages of the topic process. List Give a name and definition of EACH of these areas. Recall Identify Recount Summarise Describe Describe: Demonstrate What? Distinguish What are the features/characteristics/properties? Extract Use examples Outline Classify Apply Explain the Significance: Explain What is the ... purpose/function? Cause and effect? … Account Use examples What/Why How? Why? Analyse Analyse: Examine Explain how and/or why the intentions are carried out, impact Interpret How did it achieve its purpose or intent and / or impact/effect? Synthesise What is the relationship between the various components? Predict How/Why Critically Critically Analyse: Analyse Explains the how and the why of the positives/advantages and Compare negatives/disadvantages of this effect Contrast How and why is it beneficial and /or harmful? Discuss Recommend Evaluate: Construct Deduce To what extent is each component part successful, useful, and achieve its Evaluate purpose? Extrapolate To what extent is the impact/effect effective or valuable? Investigate To what extent has it carried out its function or purpose? Propose Is it successful, in relation to set criteria? How useful? Critically Critically Evaluate: Evaluate Come to a final judgement on each component & overall extent Assess After establishing the extent of the success/effectiveness of each individual Justify feature/purpose, compare and contrast all the areas covered To what extent is one more effective than another Were all the features/effects/impacts, the whole process, successful or effective? How useful? Appreciate: Appreciate Why is this understanding of the topic important for life?
HSC Key Words ALARM Scaffold For more on ALARM see: http://www.virtuallibrary.info/alarm.html Topic Concept: Essential idea of topic or summation Judgment on the development process and/or its change of procedures in the process over time How are the various features/impacts/effects interrelated? Clarify Define Identify List Recall Recount Summarise Name and Define: What? Components/elements/ steps/stages of the topic process. Give a name and definition of EACH of these areas. Identify Describe Demonstrate Distinguish Extract Outline Classify Describe: What? What are the features/characteristics/properties? Use examples Apply Explain Account What/Why Explain the Significance: What is the ... purpose/function? … Cause and effect? Use examples How? Why? Analyse Examine Interpret Synthesise Predict How/Why Analyse: Explain how and/or why the intentions are carried out, impact How did it achieve its purpose or intent and / or impact/effect? What is the relationship between the various components? Critically Analyse Compare Contrast Discuss Recommend Critically Analyse: Explains the how and the why of the positives/advantages and negatives/disadvantages of this effect How and why is it beneficial and /or harmful? Construct Deduce Evaluate Extrapolate Investigate Propose Evaluate: To what extent is each component part successful, useful, and achieve its purpose? To what extent is the impact/effect effective or valuable? To what extent has it carried out its function or purpose? Is it successful, in relation to set criteria? How useful? Critically Evaluate Assess Justify Critically Evaluate: Come to a final judgement on each component & overall extent After establishing the extent of the success/effectiveness of each individual feature/purpose, compare and contrast all the areas covered To what extent is one more effective than another Were all the features/effects/impacts, the whole process, successful or effective? How useful? Appreciate Appreciate: Why is this understanding of the topic important for life?