Instructor's Guide

Quizzes, Reflective Questions and Activities

Following are the assignments embedded in the Source Evaluation and Search Strategies tutorial:

Activity 1: Quiz

Activity 2: Quiz

Activity 3: Quiz

Activity 4: Evaluate sources - handout

Relationship to Other iStudy Tutorials

This tutorial is somewhat related to and dependent on other iStudy tutorials on personal effectiveness, including note taking, active listening, active reading, time management, planning your time, and conducting an interview.

Therefore, it is recommended that instructors introduce this tutorial to students after the other personal effectiveness tutorials because the personal effectiveness tutorials are in some ways prerequisite to this tutorial.

 

Suggested In-class Methods of Presentation

Lecture

• Explain the purpose/intent of the session. Refer to the Purpose section for more detail.
• Explain general information about search strategies and evaluation, including use of the web and libraries. Also discuss search strategies.

Discussion

• Provide several topics and discuss how to go about searching for information on them. Instructors should provide several examples, and invite students to cite some examples as well.

• Break the students up into small (four-five people) groups. Provide each group with a topic, perhaps a current social issue. Each group should work with the provided topic to develop search strategies for that topic. If the discussion takes place in a computer lab, students can actually perform these search strategies and develop a list of references they can share with the class. Instructors can assess students' understanding of search strategies at this point by observing how each group presents its findings and responds to questioning.

Note : This is an excellent opportunity to utilize and reinforce the cooperative learning techniques from the iStudy Cooperative Learning tutorial.

Key Points

These points are covered in the iStudy tutorial, but should be emphasized in any discussions.

• General source evaluation.
• Use of the library.
• Use of the web.
• Search strategies.
• Refined evaluation.

Assessment Criteria

Through observing both the group's and the individual's activity, the instructor may assess student performance. Assessment criteria are as follows (Instructors provide the percentage weights):

 

Assessment Criteria

Where	Domain	Activities	%
iStudy Tutorial	Knowledge	The student can identify different types of sources and their appropriateness by listing them.
iStudy Tutorial	Comprehension	The student can formulate questions to help evaluate sources.
In-class	Application	The student can locate information/source by suing search strategies.
iStudy Tutorial	Synthesis	The student can evaluate the quality of sources by applying criteria.
			100%

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