Level 6 Descriptors

Portfolios for the Professional Practice Module

will show evidence of:

• Needs analysis and justification
• Planning professional learning activities, implementation/application to practice, and evaluative research
• Evidence that the planned programme has been implemented
• An analysis of personal learning and impact

The indicative word limit for the portfolio is 6000 words (or equivalent in non text forms)

They must show level 6 descrptors

QAA for HE Level 6 Descriptors

    * a systematic understanding of key aspects of their field of study, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of a discipline
    * an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within a discipline
    * conceptual understanding that enables the student:
          to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline
          o to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline
    * an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge
    * the ability to manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline).

Typically, holders of the qualification will be able to:

    * apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects
    * critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem
    * communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.