The Skills Areas

Skill Area 1 - Identify sources and find information

This skill area covers the following skills in Part A and relates to ICT 2.1 in Part B:

• Identify suitable sources of information (e.g. hand-written documents, material to be scanned, files on disks, CD-ROMs, databases, the Internet).
• Search for information using multiple criteria (e.g. operators, such as 'and', 'greater than', and tools, such as search engines).

4-6 marks

Skill Area 2 - Interpret and explore information

This skill area covers the following skills in Part A and relates to ICT 2.1 and ICT 2.2 in Part B:

• Interpret information and decide what is relevant for the purpose (e.g. respond to an enquiry, write a project report, help solve a problem, design or make something).
• Explore information as needed for the purpose (e.g. follow lines of enquiry, explore the effects of changing information in a spreadsheet model to make and test predictions).

4-6 marks

Skill Area 3 - Enter, develop and derive information

This skill area covers the following skills in Part A and relates to ICT2.2 in Part B:

• Enter and bring together information (e.g. copy and paste or import text, images, numbers), using formats that help development (e.g. using tabs rather than spaces to align text, using tables or frames to position information).
• Develop information in the form of text, images and numbers (e.g. link information, organise information under headings, restructure tables, generate graphs and charts from data, select records or fields and prepare reports from a database).
• Derive new information (e.g. compare information from different sources to reach a conclusion, use formula to calculate information such as a total or average).

10-14 marks