Level Indicators

Level Indicators

Level 4 Indicators

• Responsibility for courses of action and their results, including wider impacts.
• Thinking through and choosing courses of action.
• Coping effectively with a range of unfamiliar situations and problems.
• Recognising the implications of different issues and courses of action.
• Identifying and evaluating the practical effects and impact of operating parameters.
• Acting on understandings of relationships and contradictions between principles and ideas.
• Investigating, analysing and evaluating information to identify relationships and make informed judgements.
• Reinterpreting and combining information to develop ideas and choose courses of action or develop ways forward.
• Designing investigations to provide new information and affect practice, including through practical investigation.
• Evaluating the appropriateness of different approaches and their impacts.
• Producing own ideas and developing innovative responses.
• Developing novel solutions to problems.

Level 5 Indicators

• Responsibility across a broad area rather than for individual tasks, including negotiating objectives and outcomes and their wider impacts.
• Developing thought through courses of action.
• Coping effectively with a range of unfamiliar situations and problems.
• Understanding the implications of different issues and courses of action.
• Identifying dilemmas and value conflicts.
• Identifying and evaluating the effects and impact of operating parameters and principles.
• Drawing on a broad personal or formal knowledge-base and set of mental models relating to the area of practice.
• Developing practical theories, ideas and models including finding ways forward when faced with contradictions and gaps.
• Researching, analysing and evaluating information to identify relationships and patterns and make informed judgements.
• Designing practical research to provide new information and affect areas of practice.
• Evaluating the effects of options and actions, including impacts outside of the immediate context.
• Taking innovative approaches to address issues.
• Developing novel solutions to sets of problems.

Level 6 Indicators

• Responsibility across a broad area including planning, resourcing and quality as well as for outcomes and their immediate and wider impacts.
• Developing thought through courses of action.
• Working effectively in complex and unpredictable contexts.
• Understanding the implications of different issues and courses of action.
• Understanding and managing dilemmas and value conflicts.
• Identifying interrelationships between wider systems in which the area of practice is located.
• Drawing on a broad personal or formal knowledge-base and set of mental models relating to the area of practice.
• Developing and evaluating a range of practical theories, ideas and models, including finding ways forward in problematic situations.
• Researching, analysing and evaluating information to identify relationships and patterns and make informed judgements.
• Designing practical, methodologically sound research to provide new information and affect areas of practice.
• Evaluating the actual and potential effects of theories and actions, including impacts outside of the immediate context.
• Taking innovative approaches in complex situations.
• Developing novel approaches to systems.

Level 7 Indicators

• Full responsibility for methods, actions and immediate and wider impacts which extend beyond the immediate area of practice.
• Developing thought through courses of action which take into account issues beyond the immediate area of practice.
• Working effectively in problematic contexts which contain value conflicts and uncertainties which extend beyond the immediate area of practice.
• Understanding alternative implications of different issues and courses of action.
• Understanding and managing dilemmas and value conflicts.
• Understanding and acting on interrelationships between wider systems in which the area of practice is located.
• Using mastery of knowledge relating to, and extending into the wider context of, the area of practice.
• Developing and critically evaluating a range of practical theories, ideas and models, including overcoming dilemmas and finding ways forward in problematic situations.
• Researching, analysing and evaluating information to identify interrelationships between wider systems in which the area of practice is located.
• Undertaking substantial investigation to address significant areas of practice, using methodologies which are consistent with their purposes and contexts.
• Critically evaluating thinking, action and structural factors operating in the area of practice, including underlying assumptions, and identifying implications for wider systems beyond the area of practice.
• Developing innovative ways forward in complex and unpredictable situations.
• Developing novel approaches to systems.