Appendix D: Research Competency Assessment Rubric Intended Outcome: The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, locate, understand, evaluate, and use information Criteria 4 3 2 1 Exemplary Satisfactory Beginning Insufficient Identifies and Identifies focused, Identifies a clear and Identifies an Fails to identify a Determines Extent clear, and complete complete research unfocused, unclear, research question, of Information research question; question, a sufficient or partial research key concepts, or Needed many key concepts; number of key question; some key idea of extent and and clear idea of concepts; and concepts; and depth of extent and depth of acceptable idea of incomplete idea of information information extent and depth of extent and depth of needed. needed. information needed. information needed. Accesses Needed Retrieves a variety Retrieves a Retrieves sources Fails to retrieve Information using of relevant sources sufficient number of that generally lack relevant sources of Effective and of information that relevant sources of relevance, quality, information to Efficient Search directly fulfill the information that and balance. fulfill the Strategies information need fulfill the Primarily uses information need. using appropriate information need inappropriate Ignores appropriate search tools and using appropriate search methods and search tools and methods. search tools and tools. methods. methods. Critically Critically evaluates Evaluates and Mostly ignores or Fails to evaluate Evaluates and analyzes analyzes information superficially information from a Information & its information and its from a sufficient evaluates limited number of Sources many and diverse number of sources. information from questionable sources. Evaluation Evaluation is some questionable sources. is consistent and sufficient. sources. thoughtful. Effectively Uses Demonstrates Uses appropriate Uses incomplete Does not use Information to understanding of information to information and relevant Accomplish a breadth and depth accomplish purpose. only partially information. Fails Specific Purpose of research. Draws relevant accomplishes to accomplish Synthesizes and conclusions. intended purpose. intended purpose. integrates Synthesizes Draws incomplete Does not draw information from a information from a conclusions. conclusions. Fails variety of sources. sufficient number of Inconsistently to effectively Draws meaningful sources. Effectively communicates communicate ideas. conclusions. communicates ideas. ideas. Clearly communicates ideas. Ethically & Consistently, Accurately builds on Inconsistently Does not properly Legally Accesses thoughtfully, and and incorporates the incorporates the incorporate the and Uses accurately builds ideas of others into ideas of others into ideas of others into Information on and incorporates assignment. work. Incomplete assignment. Does the ideas of others Correctly cites citations. not cite sources or into assignment. sources. copies sources Consistently and without crediting correctly cites authors. sources.
Appendix D: Research Competency Assessment Rubric Intended Outcome: The student will demonstrate the ability to identify, locate, understand, evaluate, and use information Criteria 4 Exemplary 3 Satisfactory 2 Beginning 1 Insufficient Identifies and Determines Extent of Information Needed Identifies focused, clear, and complete research question; many key concepts; and clear idea of extent and depth of information needed. Identifies a clear and complete research question, a sufficient number of key concepts; and acceptable idea of extent and depth of information needed. Identifies an unfocused, unclear, or partial research question; some key concepts; and incomplete idea of extent and depth of information needed. Fails to identify a research question, key concepts, or idea of extent and depth of information needed. Accesses Needed Information using Effective and Efficient Search Strategies Retrieves a variety of relevant sources of information that directly fulfill the information need using appropriate search tools and methods. Retrieves a sufficient number of relevant sources of information that fulfill the information need using appropriate search tools and methods. Retrieves sources that generally lack relevance, quality, and balance. Primarily uses inappropriate search methods and tools. Fails to retrieve relevant sources of information to fulfill the information need. Ignores appropriate search tools and methods. Critically Evaluates Information & its Sources Critically evaluates and analyzes information and its many and diverse sources. Evaluation is consistent and thoughtful. Evaluates and analyzes information from a sufficient number of sources. Evaluation is sufficient. Mostly ignores or superficially evaluates information from some questionable sources. Fails to evaluate information from a limited number of questionable sources. Effectively Uses Information to Accomplish a Specific Purpose Demonstrates understanding of breadth and depth of research. Synthesizes and integrates information from a variety of sources. Draws meaningful conclusions. Clearly communicates ideas. Uses appropriate information to accomplish purpose. Draws relevant conclusions. Synthesizes information from a sufficient number of sources. Effectively communicates ideas. Uses incomplete information and only partially accomplishes intended purpose. Draws incomplete conclusions. Inconsistently communicates ideas. Does not use relevant information. Fails to accomplish intended purpose. Does not draw conclusions. Fails to effectively communicate ideas. Ethically & Legally Accesses and Uses Information Consistently, thoughtfully, and accurately builds on and incorporates the ideas of others into assignment. Consistently and correctly cites sources. Accurately builds on and incorporates the ideas of others into assignment. Correctly cites sources. Inconsistently incorporates the ideas of others into work. Incomplete citations. Does not properly incorporate the ideas of others into assignment. Does not cite sources or copies sources without crediting authors.
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