Account: Account for: state reasons for, report on. Given an account of: narrate a series of events or transactions.
Analyse: Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications.
Apply: Use, utilise, employ in a particular situation.
Appreciate: Understand (a situation) fully; grasp the full implications of.
Argue: To present the case for and the case against a particular idea/proposition.
Assess: Make a judgement of value, quality outcomes, results or size.
Calculate: Ascertain/determine from given facts, figures or information.
Clarify: Make clear or plain.
Classify: Arrange or include in classes/categories.
Compare: Show how things are similar or different.
Compose: The activity that occurs when students produce written, spoken, or visual texts.
Construct: Make; build; put together items or arguments.
Contrast: Identify differences, demonstrate and discuss them.
Create: Bring into existance, to originate.
Criticise: Evaluate, express your judgements giving evidence for your view.
Critically analyse/ evaluate: Add a degree or level of accuracy, depth, knowledge and understanding, logic, questioning, reflection and quality to an analysis/evaluation.
Debate: Argue from two or more viewpoints.
Deduce: Draw conclusions.
Define: Give clear, concise meanings without presenting details.
Demonstrate: Give a practical exhibition an explanation.
Describe: To give a detailed account of a topic or object.
Design: Plan, model or shape an idea or object.
Demonstrate: Show by example. Describe Provide characteristics and features.
Discuss: Talk or write about a topic, identifying issues and provide point for and/or against.
Distinguish: Recognise or note/indicate as being distinct or different from; tonote differences between.
Evaluate: Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of.
Examine: Select and discuss significant aspects.
Explain: Relate cause and effect, make the relationship between thing evident; provide why and/or how.
Extract: Choose relevant and/or appropriate details.
Extrapolate: Infer from what is known.
Hypothesise: Put forward a supposition or conjecture to account for certain facts and used as a basis for further investigation by which it may be proved or disproved.
Identify: Recognise and name.
Interpret: Draw meaning from.
Investigate: Plan, inquire into and draw conclusions about.
Justify: Support an argument or conclusion.
Manipulate: Adapt or change.
Outline: Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of.
Observe: Using sense to gain information about your surroundings.
Plan: Strategise, develop a series of steps/processes.
Predict: Suggest what may happen based on available information.
Propose: Put forward (for example a point of view, idea, argument, suggestion) for consideration or action.
Prove: Establish that something is true using logical reasoning and evidence.
Reflect: The thought process by which students develop an understanding and appreciation of their own learning. This process draws on both cognitive and affective experience.
Relate: Show are things are connected to each other; how they are alike or affect each other.
Represent: Use words, images, symbols or signs to convey meaning.
Reproduce: Copy or make close imitation.
Respond: React to a person or text.
Review: Examine a subject critically.
Select: Choose in preference to another or others.
Sequence: Arrange in order.
Summarise: Express, concisely, the relevant details.
State: Present ideas clearly and concisely. Details, illustrations or examples may be left out.
Synthesise: Put together various elements to make a whole.
Test: Examine qualities or abilities.
Trace: Show the progress or development.
Translate: Express in another language or form, or in simpler terms.
Verify: To check experiment by conducting parallel experiment; compare with other standards.
Visualise: The ability to decode, interpret, create, question, challenge and evaluate texts that communicate with visual images as well as, or rather than, words.