Students use electronic search processes to locate appropriate resources. Students show familiarity with a range of important journals, including research journals. Students evaluate the appropriateness of different research methods for the particular question being asked and research design. Students describe how different research designs broaden or narrow both the questions and the findings.
Students can critique epistemological assumptions of multiple research paradigms.
Students can read, evaluate, and use articles that report both quantitative and qualitative research. Satisfactory Conducts review and synthesis, uses some significant resources, uses range of considerations for critiquing and evaluating sources, includes primary research.