Criterion B: Applying Skills

Criterion B assesses how effectively you apply ATL (Approaches to Learning) skills to develop your learning goal and your product goal.

There are 2 main parts to Criterion B

Strand i. You explain how an ATL skill(s) of your choice was applied to help you achieve your learning goal. You must supported your response with detailed examples or evidence.

Strand ii You explain how an ATL skill(s) of your choice was applied to help you achieve your product goal. You must supported your response with detailed examples or evidence.

What do I do?

Explain ATL Skill Application

You must identify and describe the specific ATL skills you used for each goal.

Appropriate ATL Skills

- Identify any specific ATL skills that are most relevant to your project. In other words which ATL skills most helped you achieve your learning and product goals.
- These could include research skills, self-management, communication, critical thinking, or technical skills used to help you understand more about your learning goal or the skill(s) you needed to create your product.

Discussion of ATL Skills in Criterion B

You must explain how the ATL skills you used helped you achieve either your learning goal or your product goal.

For your learning goal: If you used research skills, explain how they helped you gather reliable information and developed a deeper understanding of your topic. Or you could explain how critical thinking deepened your understanding of your topic.
For your product goal: If you used critical thinking skills, discuss how they helped you evaluate different approaches or improve your product design. or show how time management ensured the product was completed effectively because you used a GANTT chart.

It’s crucial to collect evidence along the way to show how you used your ATL skills.

Evidence

Support your explanations with concrete examples that you have collected along the way from your process journal. This might include:

- ✅ Annotated research notes showing how you synthesized information
- ✅ A timeline reflecting your self-management in staying on track
- ✅ Reflective notes documenting how feedback improved your work
- ✅ Photos of prototypes, drafts, or experiments
- ✅ Screenshots of coding, website development, or digital design
- ✅ Doodle notes or sketches showing brainstorming and planning
- ✅ OPVL (Origin, Purpose, Value, Limitation) analysis of research sources
- ✅ A list of sources with annotations on how they helped your project

Key Points

🔹 No set number of ATL skills is required – You can choose the number of skills based on what is most relevant to your project.
🔹 You might use one ATL skill for your learning goal (e.g., research skills) and two or more for your product goal (e.g., critical thinking and transfer).
🔹 What matters most is that you apply these skills effectively and provide evidence of their use.

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