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Teaching Sift For Source Evaluation In Asynchronous One-Credit Information Literacy Courses, Allison Faix, Tristan Daniels
Teaching Sift For Source Evaluation In Asynchronous One-Credit Information Literacy Courses, Allison Faix, Tristan Daniels
Library Faculty Publications
With an awareness of growing issues in teaching source evaluation, the authors explored new methods to incorporate this skill into one-credit asynchronous information literacy courses. The authors discovered improvements in student performance when using SIFT and identified key strategies for its implementation to achieve best results.
Discovering Crime And Justice Data On Government Websites, Ariana Baker, Allison Faix
Discovering Crime And Justice Data On Government Websites, Ariana Baker, Allison Faix
Library Faculty Publications
This chapter will outline different federal agencies that collect and distribute data related to crime and justice. It will offer some strategies for finding, navigating, and getting the most out of that data.
Framing Fake News: Misinformation And The Acrl Framework, Allison Faix, Amy F. Fyn
Framing Fake News: Misinformation And The Acrl Framework, Allison Faix, Amy F. Fyn
Library Faculty Publications
To address the growing problem of misinformation, librarians often focus on approaches tied to the frame “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual” from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Framework, however, encompasses a much wider range of skills, abilities, knowledge practices, and dispositions that can be used to recognize and avoid misinformation in today’s complex media environment. This article does a close reading of the Framework to examine how librarians can apply it more fully when teaching research strategies, especially source evaluation. The authors propose that librarians take a holistic approach …
Finding Empirical Articles For Psychology, Allison Faix
Finding Empirical Articles For Psychology, Allison Faix
Library Faculty Publications
This article is chapter 31 from volume 4 (Information Creation as a Process) of the six-volume book series Framing Information Literacy, which was published by ACRL in 2018. This article describes a lesson plan that uses constructivist learning theory and the Information Creation as Process Frame. The lesson plan helps students identify and locate empirical journal articles in the field of psychology.