ALARM scaffold – Assessment task 1

HSC key words ALARM keywords

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 & define
Define  What?
Identify  Components/elements/steps/stages of the topic process.
Recall  Give a name and definition of EACH of these areas.
List  Identify.
Recount Name & define – Assessment task 1:
Summarise  Developers
 Software
 Impact on society
 Universal
 Ethics guide
 Powerful tools

Describe Describe
Demonstrate  What?
Distinguish  What are the features/characteristics/properties?
Outline  Use examples.
Extract Describe – Assessment task 1:
Classify  Developers as inventors of the future
 Developers’ ability to create societal change
 Connection between developers and emerging technologies
Explain Explain – the significance/purpose/function of EACH
Account feature/characteristic/component
Apply  What is the purpose/ function? Cause and effect?
Clarify  Use examples.
Predict  How? Why?
Construct Explain – Assessment task 1:
Demonstrate  Issues that could be addressed by/arise from creating ethics guide.
Summarise  Point 1
 Point 2

Calculate Analyse – Examine the parts
Distinguish  How/why EACH feature/part is attempting to carry out its purpose, role or
Examine function.
Extract  Explain how and/or why the intentions are carried out. Explain the impact.
Investigate  How did it achieve its purpose or intent and/or impact/effect?
 What is the relationship between the various components?
Compare Critically analyse – How well
Contrast  Explains the how and the why of the positives/advantages and
Discuss negatives/disadvantages of this effect.
Extrapolate  How and why is it beneficial and/or harmful?
Interpret  Explain the importance. Explain the impact.
Synthesise
Assess Evaluate – Make judgements
Evaluate  To what extent is each component/part successful, useful, achieve its purpose?
Justify  To what extent is the impact/effect effective or valuable?
Deduce  To what extent has it carried out its function or purpose?
Predict  Is it successful, in relation to set criteria?
Propose  How useful? How well? (Provide reasons, examples/evidence)
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