General transferable skills: problem solving

(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998)

Competence Statement	A student is able to: identify issues, assimilating, evaluating, and analysing information as a product of independent or group research offer a practical solution making effective use of the time and resources available
Basic Level	Able to: apply standard information and methods accurately and carefully to a well defined problem demonstrate some appreciation of the complexity of issues
Advanced Level	Able to perform proficiently: in identifying and defining complex problems in applying appropriate knowledge and skills to their solution in using existing knowledge and skills in new and different situations and identify from them what is relevant to the new context
Illustrations Of Activities	At basic level: solving well defined (typically hypothetical) problems through essays, tutorials and group work well defined group research tasks mooting relatively clear issues At advanced level: dissertations: students identifying their own problems solving through independent research law clinics: students providing advice to clients on their problems
Illustrations of evidence	ability to formulate a problem in terms of context in discipline, evaluate alternate formulations ability to generate appropriate solutions, making use of own skills and knowledge, and with understanding of range of alternatives degree of imagination and insight ability to carry out a solution effectively ability to apply methods and procedures to a defined problem self awareness: aware of own limitations and own abilities

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