499 wk2 assign

Copyright © 2021 Carrick Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.

Well done!

This Test Key: FVNXEA

Your Student Key: 550735

November 20, 2021

Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy Your Results Today you completed the Evaluating Process & Authority test. Your results indicate that during your research you probably find yourself asking questions about the sources you find, such as: What makes these authors experts on this topic? How did these authors get their information? How well was this information checked before it was published? You recognize that judging information accurately requires attention to detail.

Personal recommendations for strengthening your ability to evaluate information:

Remember that choosing high-quality sources is not only about satisfying your assignment requirements. Using authoritative sources also gives you insight into how experts study your topic and using these sources gives your own work more authority within the academic community. When you want to be seen as an expert, cite the work of experts.

When responding to questions about how responsible you feel to the academic community, students at your level display an appreciation for how the academic community values, creates, and uses sources. When dealing with the ambiguity that is part of deciding which sources to use, you show limited flexibility because you prefer to use sources that are familiar and widely considered to have traditional authority. With regard to how reflective you are about selecting sources, you also have an inclination to be convinced by the sources that your professor or librarian tells you have authority.

Personal recommendations for strengthening your dispositions:

• Consider yourself a future academic researcher in your chosen field and imagine what it would take to be seen as an authority. Picture the types of evidence that you would gather and analyze. Begin using these types of evidence in your college papers.

• Consider that sources can still be authoritative even if they disagree with each other or with sources that are commonly held to be authoritative.

• Practice recognizing when you are using your professor's or librarian's guidance instead of making your own informed judgments. If you find yourself only considering sources that have traditional academic authority, challenge yourself to find additional sources that are by or about people with different types of expertise that comes from experiences outside of academic research.