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This Test Key: DREBEG

Your Student Key: 458904

April 6, 2020

Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy Your Results Today you completed the Research & Scholarship test. Your results indicate that when you are assigned a research paper, you tend to look for information from experts whom you trust to have the correct answer. You avoid biased information and sources that contradict each other because you think they might not be appropriate to use in your papers. Your ideal research process would be efficient, accurate, and straightforward.

Personal recommendations for strengthening your knowledge about scholarship and the research process:

Consider that many good research questions do not have definitive answers. Remember that scholars make claims that often disagree with each other. Thus, you might have to look at many competing perspectives, while navigating complex ideas, as you find your own voice within the conversation. Often, the more interesting and newer research will be unsettled. Because the building of scholarly knowledge requires conflicting views, do not shy away from the gray areas you encounter.

When facing the challenges and setbacks that are a normal part of research, you show an inclination to go through the research process in a linear way, finding sources that fit your initial views on a subject. With regard to how reflective you are about research, you also have an inclination to ask conventional and familiar research questions that have definitive answers. When responding to questions about how responsible you feel to the academic community, students at your level display a willingness to comply with basic academic standards and practices.

Personal recommendations for strengthening your dispositions:

• Do some background research first to see how complicated the subject is. Challenge yourself to ask more difficult questions that will require you to reconsider previously held assumptions. When you run into difficulties, seek guidance from professors and librarians who can point you to quality sources.

• Practice challenging yourself to consider views outside of your own. To do this, be open to the complexity and challenges of ideas that disagree with each other and with your own.

• Be willing to shift directions in your research if you notice something unusual or conflicting. Consider the possibility that research is a way to teach yourself something about a subject previously unfamiliar to you.