Overall+Comments+about+the+RSD

Overall Comments about the RSD Refreshed

 * The refreshed version has numerous features that you may comment on:**

1. **Large eliptical arrows** to emphasise the spiral nature of the facets and the degrees of autonomy.

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2. **Extent** of Students' Autonomy

We are trying to avoid 'levels' because of other uses of this term in universities. So each column has a descriptive heading eg 'prescribed research' with 'Level 1' in brackets

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3.Question posing skill traced in the RSD using italicised text For Levels 1 to 3, questions emerge from the process, and are in Synthesises (Facet E):  *//Ask emergent questions of clarification/curiosity*.//

*//Ask relevant, researchable questions emerging from the research*.//

*//Ask rigorous, researchable questions based on new understandings*.//

For levels 4 & 5, student questions initiate the research, so this is located in Embarks (Facet A): //*Generate questions/aims/ hypotheses framed within structured guidelines*. // //*Generate questions/aims/ hypotheses based on experience, expertise and literature*. //

This is true of the 2006 RSD, but we are trying to make it clearer here.

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