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Assessment Of First-Year Composition Students' Information Literacy Skills, Erin E. Rinto
Assessment Of First-Year Composition Students' Information Literacy Skills, Erin E. Rinto
Lied Library Open House for the 2014 American Library Association Conference
One of the ways we have been assessing the information literacy skills of our first year students is through developing and applying rubrics to a sample of annotated bibliography projects from the required English Composition course at UNLV. The annotated bibliography assignment consists of a paper proposal and the annotations for 5 sources the student plans on using in their final research paper. The "source evaluation rubric" was applied to each individual annotation (totaling 1358 annotations) and the rubric examined the extent to which students were using the evaluative criteria of currency, relevance, and authority when selecting and evaluating an …