Student Success Skills: Self-Assessment

Take our quick assessment to identify your strengths and explore areas for improvement.

1. Select a module to begin your assessment:

Academic Integrity and Referencing
Academic Writing
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Critical Thinking
Data Literacy
Diversity, Bias, and Impacting Change
Information Literacy
Personal Development and Well-Being
Research Skills
Study Strategies and Assignments

2. Select the full module or specific skill to begin your assessment:

All Research Skills

OR

Beginning Your Research
Reviewing Literature
Planning Research
Doing Ethical Research
Selecting and Developing Theoretical Frameworks
Choosing an Appropriate Research Methodology
Designing Your Research Project
Collecting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Qualitative Data
Collecting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Quantitative Data
Writing About and Disseminating Your Research

3. Begin Self-Assessment

For each statement select the button that best describes you. When you are finished, select submit to explore the skills best suited to you.

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1. I understand what independent, dependent, and confounding variables are in the context of research experiments.
2. I can identify the types of measurable variables and understand how this influences decisions regarding statistical analysis.
3. I can identify the difference between correlation and causality.
4. I can describe the concepts of reliability, validity, and generalisability and understand how they relate to interpretation of quantitative data.
5. I am familiar with ways of presenting data in numerical and graphic forms.
6. I can easily distinguish one measure of central tendency from another.
7. I can understand the role that measures of dispersion play in a data set.
8. I know what data distributions are and can identify normal, skewed, and bimodal distributions.
9. I can critically interpret values and understand Type I and Type II errors.
10. I know the assumptions required for parametric statistics and how to determine if my data meets these assumptions.
11. I can identify various nonparametric statistics and know when they would be appropriate to use.
12. I know about publication bias and the importance of reproducibility of quantitative findings.
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