Scholar: Students will search, navigate, and critically consume
(read, analyze, and use) educational research. This means that:
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Students use electronic search processes to locate appropriate resources.
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Students show familiarity with a range of important journals, including
research journals.
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Students evaluate the appropriateness of different research methods for
the particular question being asked and research design.
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Students describe how different research designs broaden or narrow both
the questions and the findings.
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Students can critique epistemological assumptions of multiple research
paradigms.
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Students can read, evaluate, and use articles that report both quantitative
and qualitative research.
Criteria and standards for evaluation:
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Rigor
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Appropriateness
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| Exemplary |
Conducts thorough and extensive review and synthesis, uses significant
multiple resources, uses broad range of considerations for critiquing and
evaluating sources, includes primary research.
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Uses and critiques major contributors to field related to focus
of action thesis; uses relevant search processes; uses research from multiple
perspectives pertinent to the question.
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| Satisfactory |
Conducts review and synthesis, uses some significant resources,
uses range of considerations for critiquing and evaluating sources, includes
primary research.
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Finds material related to the focus, and uses and critiques some
of the major contributors to that field; uses relevant search processes;
uses research from limited perspectives pertinent to the question.
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| Has not yet met the Outcome |
Just reviews, does not synthesize; limited range of resources,
limited critique and evaluation, minimal primary research.
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Finds some material related to the action thesis, but recognizes
and uses few of the major contributors; ineffectively uses search processes;
uses research from narrow perspectives; does not recognize the perspectives
of research
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California
State University Monterey Bay
100 Campus Monterey, Seaside
CA, 93955, U.S.A.
Telephone: (831) 582-3641
or 582-4094
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