QCAA Cognitive verbs

Make a judgment based on reasoning and evidence.

• Compare

• Deduce

• Draw conclusion (conclude)

• Identify (trend)

Give an expected result of an upcoming action or event; suggest what may happen based on available information.

Give reasons or evidence to support an answer, response or conclusion; show or prove how an argument, statement or conclusion is right or reasonable.

Derive or conclude something from evidence and reasoning, rather than from explicit statements; listen or read beyond what has been literally expressed; imply or hint at.

• Deduce

• Calculate

• Explain

• Infer

Reach a conclusion that is necessarily true, provided a given set of assumptions is true; arrive at, reach or draw a logical conclusion from reasoning and the information given.

Display recognition of similarities and differences and recognise the significance of these similarities and differences.

Distinguish; locate, recognise and name; establish or indicate who or what someone or something is; provide an answer from a number of possibilities; recognise and state a distinguishing factor or feature.

• Compare

• Identify (trend)

• Define

• Explain

Arrange, order; form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for harmonious or united action.

Recognise as distinct or different; note points of difference between; discriminate; discern; make clear a difference/s between two or more concepts or items (work out why one is different to the other).

• Distinguish

• Compare

• Define

• Determine

Display recognition of differences by deliberate juxtaposition of contrary elements; show how things are different or opposite; give an account of the differences between two or more items or situations, referring to both or all of them throughout.

• Organise

• Contrast

• Recognise

• Calculate