Empathetic
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Collaborative
The ability to seek out opportunities to receive responses to your work; present your own views and ideas clearly and concisely; listen to the views of others; be willing and able to work in teams; take a variety of roles and be able to evaluate your own ideas and contributions.
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Concerned for society
The ability to know the contribution you can make to society for the benefit of those less fortunate; demonstrate citizenship and a sense of community ethos and recognise differences as well as similarities between people and peoples; be aware of your own and others’ cultural heritage and sensitive to the ethical and moral issues raised by their studies.
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Confident
The ability to develop a belief in your knowledge, understanding and action; recognise when you need to change your beliefs based upon additional information or the arguments of others; deal with new challenges and situations, including when this places them under stress
Agile
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Creative and enterprising
The ability to be open-minded and flexible in your thought processes; demonstrate a willingness to innovate and invent new and multiple solutions to a problem or situation; adapt your approach according to need; surprise and show originality in your work, developing a personal style; be resourceful when presented with challenging tasks and problems, using your initiative to find solutions.
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Enquiring
The ability to be curious; be willing to work alone; be proactive; keen to learn; show enterprise; think independently; challenge assumptions and require evidence for assertions; actively control your own learning; move on from the absorption of knowledge and procedures to develop your own views and solutions.
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Open-minded
The ability to take an objective view of different ideas and beliefs; become more receptive to other ideas and beliefs based on the arguments of others; change ideas should there be compelling evidence to do so.
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Risk-taking
The ability to demonstrate confidence; experiment with novel ideas and effects; speculate willingly; work in unfamiliar contexts; avoid coming to premature conclusions; tolerate uncertainty
Hard Working
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Practice
The ability to train and prepare through repetition of the same processes in order to become more proficient.
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Perseverance
The ability to keep going and not give up; face obstacles and difficulties but never give up; persist in effort; work diligently and work systematically; not be satisfied until high quality, appropriate precision and the desired outcome are achieved.
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Resilience
The ability to overcome setbacks; remain confident, focused, flexible and optimistic; help others to move forward in the face of adversity
Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics (ACPS)
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Meta-Thinking
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Meta-cognition
The ability to knowingly use a wide range of thinking approaches and to transfer knowledge from one circumstance to other
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Self-regulation
The ability to monitor, evaluate and self-correct
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Strategy-planning
The ability to approach new learning experiences by actively attempting to connect it to existing knowledge or concepts and hence determine an appropriate way to think about the work
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Intellectual confidence
The ability to articulate personal views based on evidence
Linking
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Generalisation
The ability to see how what is happening in this instance could be extrapolated to other similar situations
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Connection finding
The ability to use connections from past experiences to seek possible generalisations
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Big picture thinking
The ability to work with big ideas and holistic concepts
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Abstraction
The ability to move from concrete to abstract very quickly.
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Imagination
The ability to represent the problem and its categorisation in relation to more extensive and interconnected prior knowledge
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Seeing alternative perspectives
The ability to take on the views of others and deal with complexity and ambiguity
Analysing
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Critical or logical thinking
The ability to deduct, hypothesise, reason, seek supporting evidence
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Precision
The ability to work effectively within the rules of a domain
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Complex and multi-step problem solving
The ability to break down a task, decide on a suitable approach, and then act
Creating
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Intellectual playfulness
The ability to recognise rules and bend them to create valid but new forms
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Flexible Thinking
The ability to abandon one idea for a superior one or generate multiple solutions
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Fluent thinking
The ability to generate ideas
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Originality
The ability to conceive something entirely new
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Evolutionary and revolutionary thinking
The ability to create new ideas through building on existing ideas or diverting from them
Realising
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Automaticity
The ability to use some skills with such ease as they no longer require active thinking
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Speed and accuracy
The ability to work at speed and with accuracy
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