descriptions of: statements about analysis of own methods analysis of own analysis of own methods, data and and the quality of own methods and the methods and the own methods and data explanations data to inform: quality of own data to quality of own data methods and others’ inform: justified explanation explanation of specific explanations of effective actions to explanation of actions to improve the improve the quality of effective actions to quality of own evidence their evidence improve the quality evaluation of others’ of their evidence critical evaluation of skills methods and Evaluating methods and informed evaluation of others’ explanations from a explanations from a methods and others’ scientific perspective scientific perspective explanations from a dimension inquiry scientific perspective concise and coherent use of coherent use of use of appropriate use of everyday language fragmented use of Skills appropriate language and appropriate language and language and and representations when language and Science accurate representations accurate representations representations when communicating findings representations when when communicating findings when communicating communicating findings and ideas to audiences communicating findings and ideas to specific findings and ideas to and ideas to specific and ideas to audiences audiences audiences specific audiences Communicating Shading emphasises the qualities that discriminate between the A–E descriptors.
Skills dimension Science inquiry skills Evaluating analysis of own methods and the quality of own data to inform: justified explanation of effective actions to improve the quality of their evidence critical evaluation of others’ methods and explanations from a scientific perspective analysis of own methods and the quality of own data to inform: explanation of effective actions to improve the quality of their evidence informed evaluation of others’ methods and explanations from a scientific perspective analysis of own methods and the quality of own data explanation of specific actions to improve the quality of own evidence evaluation of others’ methods and explanations from a scientific perspective descriptions of: own methods and data others’ methods and explanations statements about methods, data and explanations Communicating concise and coherent use of appropriate language and accurate representations when communicating findings and ideas to specific audiences coherent use of appropriate language and accurate representations when communicating findings and ideas to specific audiences use of appropriate language and representations when communicating findings and ideas to specific audiences use of everyday language and representations when communicating findings and ideas to audiences fragmented use of language and representations when communicating findings and ideas to audiences Shading emphasises the qualities that discriminate between the A–E descriptors.
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