| Masters' Level Characteristic | Implications |
|---|---|
| Systematic understanding |
- Clear indication of the (precise) area being explored/understood - Ideas/understanding presented in a systematic way (logical links from one idea to the next) - Terminology explained (to demonstrate your understanding) |
| Critical awareness |
- Capacity to identify challenges (drawing on literature where appropriate) - Models (of "good practice", for example) questioned. - Assumptions (about what people do /think/believe, for example) eliminated |
| Critical evaluation of current research/scholarship |
- Research selected relates clearly to (precise) area being explored (see above) - Relevance of research to particular contexts questioned |
| Systematic approach to dealing with complex issues |
- Logical organisation (perhaps with system described explicitly) - System addresses all of the key elements - Recognition of further questions for future work |
| Clear communication skills |
- Express complex ideas using the simplest possible language - Where specialist language is used, non-specialists need to understand it |
