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Maturity Level
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Information
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Check
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Entry
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Typically does not realize the need to judge information quality and has no basis for doing so.
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| 2.
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Emerging
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Emerging realization that information quality differs. Muddles evaluation by thinking of primary/secondary sources instead of primary/secondary information, leading to muddled evaluation when sources contain both.
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| 3.
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Practicing
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Judges information by source type, informant knowledge, and record timing. Applies "primary/secondary" to information instead of sources.
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| 4.
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Proficient
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Additionally, learns history necessary to recognize and evaluate all explicit information in a source.
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| 5.
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Stellar
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Additionally, utilizes implicit information in a source. Finds information in cases like illegitimacy that stump most researchers.
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