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Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell Dec 2016

Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

Catherine Baird

Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …


Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell Dec 2016

Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell

Jonathan Howell

Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …


Taste Testing For Two: Using Formative And Summative Assessment, Elisa Slater Acosta, Katherine Donaldson Dec 2016

Taste Testing For Two: Using Formative And Summative Assessment, Elisa Slater Acosta, Katherine Donaldson

Elisa Slater Acosta

This activity was created to introduce first-year students to library resources they can use for their annotated bibliography assignment. In pairs, students are assigned a task card that requires them to find an information source. After finding a source meeting the criteria of their task card, the student teams input their answers into a Google Form. Formative assessment takes place during class, allowing the librarian to modify instruction on-the-spot based on the responses from the form.

Summative assessment takes place at the end of the semester, when a rubric is applied to a sample of student responses from the activity. …