A topic analysis will help you to clarify and understand what your assessment question is asking you to do.
Watch the video below to learn more about the process of analysing your topic.
Now, using what you have learnt, look at the following hypothetical question and consider what information you want to find and what keywords you might use to find that information
"Discuss how racism might affect student achievement in schools. Your answer should include research in the Australian context".
| Instruction word: | Discuss: |
| Qualifying words and phrases | Australian context |
| Key Concepts | Racism, student achievement, schools |
| Keywords | Synonyms | Possible truncations |
| racism | racist, race relations, institutional racism, multiculturalism, discrimination, minority groups, prejudice | racis*, multicultural* |
| schools | education, classrooms, teaching, teachers | school*, educat*, teach* |
| achievement | evaluate, evaluation, result, results, performance, success, outcome | evaluat*, result*, outcome* |
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