NESA Verbs Biology

Analyse

• Identify components and the relationship between them

• Use, utilise, employ in a particular situation

• Show how things are similar or different

• Show how things are different or opposite

Assess means to...

• Provide characteristics and features

• Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

• Make a judgement of value, quality, outcomes, results or size

• Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

Explain means to...

• Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

• Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

• Recognise and name

• Support an argument or conclusion

Justify means to...

• Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of

  Predict

• Support an argument or conclusion

• Express, concisely, the relevant details

• Recognise and name

Identify means to...

• Discuss issues and provide points for and/or against

• Recognise and name

• Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

• Show how things are similar or different

Compare menas to...

• Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications

• Show how things are different or opposite

• State meaning and identify essential qualities

• Show how things are similar or different

Evaluate means to...

• Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

• Provide characteristics and features

• Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

• Support an argument or conclusion

Outline is to...

• Sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of

• Relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how

• Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

• State meaning and identify essential qualities

Recall is to....

• Support an argument or conclusion

• Express, concisely, the relevant details

• Present remembered ideas, facts or experiences

• Make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of

Contrast is to...

• Show how things are similar or different

• Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications

• State meaning and identify essential qualities

• Show how things are different or opposite