Questioning and researching

Identify current personal knowledge, gaps, misconceptions, currency of information, personal perspective and possible perspectives of others (WAHASS79)

Construct, select and evaluate a range of questions and hypotheses involving cause and effect, patterns and trends, and different perspectives (WAHASS80)

Analyse and clarify the purpose of an inquiry using appropriate methodologies, ethical protocols and concepts to plan for, and inform, an investigation (WAHASS81)

Use a range of methods to collect, select, record and organise relevant and reliable information and/or data from multiple sources that reflects the type of analysis of information that is needed (e.g. questionnaires, surveys, emails, discussion lists, tables, field sketches, annotated diagrams), with and without the use of digital and spatial technologies (WAHASS82)

Identify the origin, purpose and context of primary sources and/or secondary sources (WAHASS83)

Use appropriate ethical protocols, including specific formats for acknowledging other  people's information and understand that these  formats vary between organisations (WAHASS84)