The purpose of a body of scholarship on a subject is to advance our knowledge and understanding in that field. Scholarship takes us much deeper into a topic.
Your Critical Segment requires you to find 3 new scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources.
Peer Review refers to the process that most scholarly articles go through in order to be published in an academic journal.
Also referred to as refereed articles, peer reviewed articles are submitted to a scholarly journal, reviewed first by an editor to evaluate if the article is right for the publication, and then peer reviewed by other researchers who specialize in the same field to assess the quality of the article. Reviewers may send articles back for revision or recommend that they be accepted or rejected.
Peer review matters because it is an indication that an article makes a contribution to knowledge, that it is well researched, and the the conclusions drawn are reasonable and supported by evidence.
Books may be scholarly, but they do not go through the peer review process. Scholarly books are reviewed by the publishing editor, and usually the publisher is an academic press.
Keep this in mind when you research. You can check a box for scholarly, peer-reviewed articles, but there is not an equivalent box for scholarly books.
In both cases, you still need to assess if a source is scholarly, if it relevant to your focus, and if it is current enough.
Your Critical Segment requires you to find 3 new scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources.