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This resource consists of three prompts for students to reflect on their research process at the beginning, the midpoint, and the end of a research assignment. The reflection responses can be used by librarians and instructors to identify where students are struggling in the research process and use that information to improve their teaching.
Posted on May 3, 2023
Contributor: Kayleen Jones
Resource Type(s): Activity, Assessment Material, Assignment Prompt
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Creation as Process, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Easier access to research data is changing the research landscape. Investigate the data available for your research topic through the library’s catalog and open-access sources.
Posted on April 19, 2023
Contributor: Kaypounyers Maye
Resource Type(s): Assignment Prompt, Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This group activity is conceived of as part of a larger session about finding academic books and articles. It is an opportunity to address emerging AI tools like Elicit and the various chatbots. The jigsaw design assigns each group one tool to evaluate and present to the rest of the class.
Posted on April 11, 2023
Contributor: Megan Fitzgibbons
Resource Type(s): Activity, Lesson Plan, Slide Deck, Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
This exercise scaffolds Google and Library resources in order to help students prepare for "career conversations" with industry professionals. The presentation is designed for a business communication class in which students conduct industry research as prepartion for a strategic professional networking assignment. The assumption exercise is designed explicitly to encourage students to question their assumptions about librarians and other career professionals. Padlet is used to encourage group work and for assessment purposes.
Posted on March 1, 2023
Contributor: Benjamin Hall
Resource Type(s): Lesson Plan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This infographic displays where to look for information and where to search for finding public company information.
Posted on January 23, 2023
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Comprehensive strategies on finding statistics and data.
Posted on September 29, 2022
Contributor: Grace Liu
Resource Type(s): Instruction Program Material, Research Guide
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
This Worksheet is based on Mike Caulfield’s S.I.F.T. Method. Students will first need to have a familiarity with that. I highly recommend the “S.I.F.T. For Teachers” video playlist on his YouTube channel and/or his website.This activity would probably take most of a class period. Could also be done online via a Discussion.
Posted on June 17, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration
Tabs: Books, Ebooks, Vidoes, Articles, Podcasts, Resources for Your Students
Posted on June 15, 2022
Contributor: Sarah Hood
Resource Type(s): Bibliography, Research Guide
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration
This think-pair-share activity worksheet allows students to apply search terms to their own research topic and can be used after a class discussion or class lecture on library and database searching. First, students think on their own about potential search terms for their own topic. Then, they pair up and discuss how they thought of those terms and how they might use Boolean operators to connect those terms. Lastly, the pairs share with the class about what they talked about in their pairs. This resource is suitable for in-person and synchronous online instruction and takes about 10 minutes...
Posted on June 15, 2022
Contributor: Mark Duncan
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Searching as Strategic Exploration
These materials accompany the book chapter “Using Critically Appraised Topics to Teach Evidence-based Management to Graduate Business Students” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.
Posted on April 25, 2022
Contributor: Zahra Premji
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed: Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration