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Analyzing Magazine Articles, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Learn how to recognize magazine articles and choose when to use them in academic research.

Analyzing Journal Articles, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Scholarly or academic journals are essential resources for doing academic research. While popular magazines like Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report are excellent sources of information on nearly any topic, they are written with the average reader in mind and do not include the depth of coverage that an academic researcher would need. For in‐depth examination of a topic, academic, scholarly publications should be the researcher's first choice.

Lecture-Free Calculus For Science And Engineering, Benjamin Wiles

IMPACT Symposium

Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (MA 16100) is a historically difficult, required course for engineering and science majors. The traditional configuration consists of 250 students meeting in a large lecture 3 times per week and twice per week in smaller recitations of size 40. Additionally, those who repeat the course often continue to encounter difficulty. A scalable re-design has been implemented to attempt to address the needs of students that are not being met in the traditional configuration by diverting resources from lecture to problem sessions and from traditional Q&A recitations to student-driven presentation/collaboration-based recitations. The students work in …

Bcm10001 Introduction To Construction Management, Daphene Koch

IMPACT Symposium

The poster presented at the IMPACT Symposium 2014 outlines the redesign of BCM 10001 (Introduction to Construction Management).

Student Self-Efficacy In Employment Interviews: An Assessment Of A Communication Course Redesign, Jeralyn L Faris

IMPACT Symposium

Communication instruction and practice that increases a student’s self-efficacy in the employment interviewing process is a desired outcome of COM 325, Interviewing Principles and Practices. Self-efficacy outcomes are in the affective domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy and are measureable. Therefore, our study seeks to discover whether increasing time spent in individual performances of in-class employment interviews from 22 to 44 minutes increase students' self-efficacy in their interview performance ability.

Fourteen sections of COM 325 are offered Spring, 2014. Five of these sections are piloting a redesigned version of the course, via Purdue’s IMPACT initiative. The key difference in the five redesigned …

A Service Learning Experience For Pharmacy Students Involving Unwanted Medication Collection, Patricia L. Darbishire

IMPACT Symposium

This poster outlining a serve learning experience of students in Purdue’s pharmacy program was presented at the IMPACT Symposium 2014.

Bcm 475: Construction Cost Control, Joseph Orczyk

IMPACT Symposium

The poster presented at the IMPACT Symposium 2014 outlines the redesign of of BCM 475 (Construction Cost Control).

Edps 265: The Inclusive Classroom, Jasmine Begeske

IMPACT Symposium

EDPS 265: The Inclusive Classroom is a foundational, large enrollment lecture course and is taught in a lecture hall with a stadium style seating arraignment. This configuration results in a course that is not student-centered, promotes one-way communication and hinders cooperative learning. Education courses should be structured so that the course in itself is instructive. This course teaches interventions for reaching all students, using techniques that engage students in the learning process. The structure of this course, the physical space and the format should model best practices in the classroom. I will implement and evaluate student-centered instructional strategies and technologies …

Why Are We Doing This? The Role Of Personal Relevance In Developing Biological Information Literacy Using Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning, Jeffrey D Radloff, C Maybee, Maribeth Slebodnik, Nancy Pelaez

IMPACT Symposium

Student-centered learning necessitates that students engage with an array of materials to develop their own understandings, often requiring students to find and critically engage with biological information. This project describes a course (BIOL 131; Biology II: Development, Structure and Function of Organisms) that utilizes cyber Peer-led Team Learning (cPLTL) as a student-centered approach to enhance students’ biological information literacy. Emphasizing the social aspects of learning, students work together in small groups led by a peer mentor using online meeting software. Scaffolded across the first half of the semester, students were given information literacy focused questions as part of a weekly …

Getting Superior Work In The Ir: A Self-Supporting Loop, M. Sara Lowe, Sean M. Stone

Library Staff Publications and Research

Presenters will discuss curricular and authentic assessment methods intended to prepare students to submit superior undergraduate theses for deposit in the institutional repository and related issues.

Using a Claremont Colleges Library developed Information Literacy (IL) Rubric (https://bit.ly/ccl-ilrubric) originally adapted from a rubric at Carleton College (Gould Library Reference and Instruction Department. "Information Literacy in Student Writing Rubric and Codebook." Northfield, MN: Carleton College. 2012. https://go.carleton.edu/6a), librarians are working closely with departments to provide authentic assessment of senior theses. Through this, librarians and faculty have identified areas where students score poorly (primarily attribution and evaluation of sources). In tandem with the …

Using Music To Teach Latin American (And World) History, Daisy V. Domínguez

Publications and Research

This article encourages teachers to use music as a pedagogical tool and discusses songs that may be used to teach Latin American history.

Sources: Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy To Empower Learners, Ann Agee

Faculty and Staff Publications

A review of the book Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners, by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson. Transliteracy, visual literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, mobile literacy—there has been a struggle for years to define how technology changes the way people understand and use information. For academic librarians, information literacy has been the approach of choice. In one-shot sessions and semester-long courses, we teach students how to determine what information is needed and how to find it, evaluate it, and use it ethically. In Metaliteracy, the authors argue that information literacy as a concept needs to be updated …

Historical Background On Lis1001, Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Information about the library’s skills course, LIS1001: Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies.

What Is Research?, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Overview of research and the role libraries play in it.

The Web Vs. Library Resources: A Research Rationale, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help understanding the type of information provided online and the type of information provided by a library.

Primary, Secondary, And Tertiary Sources, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help identifying source materials for academic research.

Search Strategies: Internet Vs. Library Databases, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help understanding and constructing internet and library searches for more successful academic research.

What Is A Reference Collection?, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help understanding a library's reference collection.

Peer Review, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help understanding peer review for successful academic research.

The Library's Catalog: From Cards To Databases, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Overview of the library's catalog and how to search it.

Information: What Is It? How Is It Organized?, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Overview of information in regards to academic research.

Government Documents, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Information about government documents as potential research sources.

Evaluating Books & Other Lengthy Sources, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help identifying characteristics/qualities to examine when evaluating books and longer sources for inclusion in an academic paper

Discovery Tool, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Information on library discovery tools.

Developing A Research Vocabulary, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help finding terminology that will aid in the discovery of relevant research materials.

Creating An Annotated Bibliography, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help understanding the annotated bibliography and how to create one.

Conducting A Literature Review, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

The literature review is an integral part of any research project and is undertaken as a means of surveying what research has been conducted previously on a particular topic. There are many reasons for conducting a literature review, but one of the primary reasons is to establish a base line of what is already known on a topic before exploring the topic any further. The review typically involves a search of any previously published or presented materials that might have relevance to a prospective new study.

Choosing A Research Topic, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

One of the most difficult things about doing research is finding a good topic. Finding an area of interest is usually no problem, but discovering a specific topic within that area can be challenging or even frustrating. The following discussion should help you to select an appropriate research topic.

Boolean Logic/Boolean Searching, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help using Boolean operators for a successful online or database search.

Books: Their Role In Research, Jim Alderman

Beginning Library & Information Systems Strategies

Help evaluating books as resources in an academic research project.