Access to HE - Research Skills
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Badge Nation
Earners of this badge have demonstrated their skills in academic research through their engagement with the Access to HE course delivered by City College Plymouth. Earners have applied their knowledge of credible sources in a real-world environment and actively utilised their ability to access information in a setting where they have been able to receive feedback and develop, showing consistency in approaches to locating and referencing reliable sources in the classroom, and in their coursework.
Additional DetailsSkills
Earning Criteria
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Earners have shown evidence of consistently strong research skills within the subject pathway, with use of only academic and reliable resources which have been chosen because of their credibility and relevance to the topic. Earners have demonstrated consistently accurate use of the Harvard referencing system using in-text citations and a correctly formatted reference list.
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Earners have passed a formal assessment in which they have successfully included accurate references from more than three different types of credible source: for example textbook, internet, journal, newspaper
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Earners of this badge must be a student of City College Plymouth
Standards
This badge has been mapped to the Demonstrate Layer of the Cities of Learning Badging Standard. The earner has demonstrated they can apply knowledge with real world context and has gained experience, consistently and applied feedback they have received in order to develop.
Endorsements
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City & Guilds
City and Guilds endorse the Cities of Learning Badging Standard designed as a scaffold to recognise knowledge, skills and behaviour achievement developed in association with the RSA