Question: Assessing Research Skills
Throughout your program, you will build and refine your research skills. At the master''s level, it will not be enough to simply state your opinion in your writing. Faculty will expect that you support the claims and arguments you make with quality, scholarly sources.
As you reflected on in your Unit 1 discussion, you are already coming into your master''s or graduate certificate program with skills and strengths. As part of this assignment, you will assess your research and information literacy skills and identify both strengths and areas for growth. You will have an opportunity to review resources recommended specifically for you based upon your assessment results, and will then reflect on what you''ve learned from reviewing those resources.
Assignment Instructions
Step 1: Check the scoring guide.
Open the Assessing Research Skills Scoring Guide in the resources to see how this assignment will be graded.
Step 2: Complete the assignment.
Complete the Information Skills Self-Assessment. This self-assessment is linked in the resources.
Review the information presented in the Identifying Scholarly Sources section. If additional resources were recommended for you, review at least one of the suggested resources.
Open the Information Skills Reflection Worksheet provided in the resources and follow the directions to complete it.
Save your completed worksheet as a Word document to your computer.
In the assignment area, click Browse My Computer to locate and attach your document to this assignment.
Step 4: Review your feedback.
You will see an alert in your Course Updates when your assignment has been graded. To see your grade and instructor feedback, complete the following:
1 Strengthening Your Academic Skills
INTRODUCTION
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Strengthening Academic Skills
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All new learners bring with them skills and experiences that they can apply in their courses at Capella. This unit is designed to help you assess the academic skills you already have that will be important for your success, identify gaps, and begin utilizing resources on the Campus website to help you grow. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about what it means to have a growth mindset and how that can help you succeed in your courses.
While working through the activities in this unit, you will begin to learn your way around the courseroom and Capella''s Campus website. You will also have an opportunity to make sure that your computer and software are compatible with the Capella courseroom and begin to understand what is expected of an online learner at Capella.
Click Strengthening Academic Skills to learn more about what''s ahead in this unit.
Exploring all information and resources provided in this unit could take up to 3 hours. Based on your previous higher education experience, you may spend slightly more or less time than this.
After reading through this introduction, work through the unit 1 studies, discussion, assignment, and quiz.
OBJECTIVES
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
Verify that your computer's system and software meet minimum requirements.
Explore the Campus website.
Understand expectations for participating in an academic community.
Identify resources and strategies you can use to grow your academic skills.
Identify how having a growth mindset can impact your learning experience.
Identify information or strategies related to library research that you can apply in your coursework.
Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your viewpoints in your coursework.
Participate in a discussion, assignment, and quiz in the courseroom.