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Mental Makeup: Why College Students Choose Their Major, Genesis M. Lenis, Gilarys Garcia Apr 2017

Mental Makeup: Why College Students Choose Their Major, Genesis M. Lenis, Gilarys Garcia

Genesis M. Lenis

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Using Databases (With Research Log) Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy Jan 2017

Using Databases (With Research Log) Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy

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This activity shows students how to match their information needs and search strategies to appropriate search tools. In this case, students are learning how to find and use academic databases in order to locate resources that are relevant to their academic research assignment.


Creating Keywords From A Research Question Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy Jan 2017

Creating Keywords From A Research Question Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy

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This lesson helps students recognize that they need to use different types of searching language in order to retrieve relevant results and to emphasize that research is an iterative process. Use when students have already formulated a research question and are about to begin searching for information on their topic.


Evaluation Criteria Carousel Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy Jan 2017

Evaluation Criteria Carousel Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy

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In this lesson, students will create evaluation criteria that they can use to determine the quality of a source.


Primary Vs. Secondary Sources: A Brief Introduction (Lesson), Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy Jan 2017

Primary Vs. Secondary Sources: A Brief Introduction (Lesson), Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy

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Use this lesson to help students distinguish between primary and secondary sources and use them in them in the appropriate context.


Website Evaluation Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy Jan 2017

Website Evaluation Lesson, Alexandra Hamlett, Meagan Lacy

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This activity helps students evaluate their own authority on a particular subject so that they can begin to understand how authority is created and effectively evaluate the authority of other sources they encounter. Additional evaluation criteria is also introduced.


Conference Setup Form (Event Community), Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Jan 2017

Conference Setup Form (Event Community), Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Digital Commons@Georgia Southern

Digital Commons Promotional and Instructional Materials

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Journal Setup Form, Digital Commons Jan 2017

Journal Setup Form, Digital Commons

Digital Commons Promotional and Instructional Materials

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Stories (Causal Inferencing & Truth Value Judgment Tasks) Combined, Andreas Schramm Dec 2016

Stories (Causal Inferencing & Truth Value Judgment Tasks) Combined, Andreas Schramm

Andreas Schramm

This file contains the materials used in the word completion studies as well as in the Truth Value Judgment Task study