SOLO Taxonomy and
New Zealand Key Competency:
Thinking
Julie Mills and Pam Hook
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The New Zealand Curriculum
Key Competencies
Key Competencies – Capabilities for living and lifelong
learning:
Opportunities to develop the competencies occur in
social contexts. People adopt and adapt practices that
they see used and valued by those closest to them, and
they make these practices part of their own identity and
expertise. The competencies continue to develop over
time, shaped by interactions with people, places, ideas,
and things. Students need to be challenged and
supported to develop them in contexts that are
increasingly wide ranging and complex.
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Refer: Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum
thinking for English-medium teaching and learning in years 1–13
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Managing Relating to
Self Others
Participating
and Thinking
Contributing
Using
language
symbols
and text
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Refer: Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum
thinking for English-medium teaching and learning in years 1–13
www.hooked-on-thinking.com Wellington: Learning Media. P14

Ministry of Education Statement
Thinking:
Be more intellectually curious/take more risks with my
learning/actively seek new knowledge/ use critical
/creative /meta cognitive thinking strategies /make
decisions/ reflect on own thinking/ask
questions/challenge perceptions and assumptions
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Refer: Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum
thinking for English-medium teaching and learning in years 1–13
www.hooked-on-thinking.com Wellington: Learning Media. P14

Teacher Statements on Thinking
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Teacher Statements on Thinking
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Teacher Statements on Thinking
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Teacher Statements on Thinking
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Teacher Statements on Thinking
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Student Questions
What am I doing ?
How well am I doing?
What should I do next?
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SOLO Taxonomy - Biggs and Collis 1982
The Structured Overview of Learning Outcomes
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www.hooked-on-thinking.com Learning-the SOLO Taxonomy (1st ed) New York: Academic Press.

Using SOLO
Taxonomy coded
Rubrics for Student
Self Assessment/Peer
Assessment.
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