Thanks for the mention Karl!

 

I have recently created a group of stand alone mini modules you are welcome to reuse (Creative Commons licence), one of which is Evaluating Information using the same information matrix as a downloadable word document, to help students understand evaluation. The Little Book of Info Skills Online: Evaluating Information is available here http://libraryonline.leedsmet.ac.uk...ng_information/

 

All sections of the Little Book of Info Skills Online are availably through the Leeds Met repository http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/view_record.php?identifier=6206&SearchGroup=Open+Educational+Resources

 

Or you can access each section individually here, and even download the word docs to personalise with subject specific resources http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/search.php?q=Little+book+of+information+skills&SearchSubmit.x=0&SearchSubmit.y=0&SearchSubmit=Search&SearchGroup=Open+Educational+Resources

 

They are very new, free to reuse, and have already become the most popular tutorials with students. Any feedback gratefully received!

 

Thanks,

 

Jennie

 

 

 

Hi Hannah,

 

When it comes to the aspect of evaluation (obviously only one aspect of literature searching) the article The Information Source Evaluation Matrix: a quick, easy and transferable content evaluation tool (Kaye Towlson, Mike Leigh and Lucy Mathers) might be useful - http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/47/5.pdf

 

Jennifer Wilson posted a variant based on the above here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=lis-infoliteracy;ff4e17af.1011 (which I further adapted for my sessions). It can form the basis of one of the early sessions on critical evaluation of material, and works well as part of a hands-on exercise. One way to use it is to get students to search for a topic relevant to them on Google, choose one of the top resources, then rate it using the matrix; then get them to do the same with an academic resource  - e.g. Primo Central, the library catalogue, JSTOR - and compare the scores. Hopefully they will be illuminating, and it helps to reinforce some basics to do with evaluation.

 

Best wishes,

 

Karl

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Hello All,

 

A tutor has asked for my help with redesigning a Year 2 research module to incorporate an assignment task based around literature searching, e.g. annotated bibliography, account of search strategies (accounting for 20 or 25% of the module). I would be interested to hear about others’ experiences with assessing literature searching skills, e.g. Have you any ideas about how this could be done? How might you mark it?

 

Any ideas/advice would be gratefully received.

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Hannah

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