West Chester University
Grace Liu
Resources Contributed
The document has included 13 knowledge briefs of data quality literacy series in one PDF file.
The knowledge brief on evaluating survey data quality follows the total survey error framework to help users understand the potential quality issues of survey data.
The knowledge brief on understanding survey data and public polls help users to understand the key concepts in survey research and its methodology with examples for popular surveys and public polls.
The knowledge brief on evaluating international government data quality help users understand common data quality issues of international government data.
This knowledge brief on commercial data quality helps users to prepare conversation with researchers on data quality issues.
This knowledge brief on commercial data quality helps users to prepare the conversation of data quality issues with commercial data vendors.
The knowledge brief on evaluating commercial data quality guide users to go through a list of common data quality issues that need researchers' attention.
The knowledge brief on understanding commercial data helps users understand commercial data, the benefits of using commercial data, and its limitations.
The knowledge brief on evaluating administrative data guides users to go through the quality dimensions of relevance, accessibility, interpretability, coherence, accuracy, and institutional environment to assess the fitness for use of the administrative data.
The knowledge brief on understanding administrative data helps users understand administrative data, the benefits of using administrative data, and its limitations.
The knowledge brief on using and evaluating U.S. federal statistics introduces the basic quality standards and guidelines that ensures the quality of federal statistics and how to assess the fit between the statistical datasets and their research needs.
The knowledge brief on evaluating dataset for research needs guide researchers to assess the fit between the dataset and the research question.
The knowledge brief on evaluating data documentation includes the characteristics of good documentation and the approaches to evaluate the quality of data documentations.
This knowledge brief on data reference interview include a list of questions to ask when a researcher has a request related to data.
The book is an edited collection based on a seven-session national forum webinar series on data quality literacy. It covers topics including evaluating data quality: challenges & competencies, quality assurance in data creation, understanding & evaluating governmental data (U.S. & International), commercial data quality issues, data quality: reproducibility and preservation, data quality: evolving employer expectations, and librarians’ role in cultivating data-literate citizens.…
An infographic guide on strategies and resources for comprehensive market analysis and planning for local businesses. It was used to support experiential learning marketing research classes, which student groups work with individual small business clients. It can be used together with the self-directed exercise worksheet.
This guide can be used together with the Strategy for Business Consulting with Market Research. It guides students to go through several library databases to find consumer reports, market research handbook, industry reports, customer profiles, and competitor profiles with heatmap visualizations.
It can be used together with the Strategy for Researching a Public Company. The worksheet takes students to explore several library databases to find company profiles, swot analysis, industry reports and articles.
A self-directed research exercise worksheet that guide students to explore several library databases and find different perspectives on a particular detable finance-related topics given by the instructor.
It can be used together with the Strategy for Finding Statistics and Data to enhanced students' self-directed learning. The exercise intended to address the faculty's challenge in guiding students to find a good data research topic. It can be adapted based on your specific instruction needs.
This learning module will help students find and critically evaluate online sources for class discussions and assignments and form unbiased judgments and decisions.
What is it?
- A five-part series learning module that takes 1.5 - 2 hrs. to complete
- A 4-step strategy for evaluating online sources with hands-on exercises and an infographic guide
- Develop critical source evaluation strategies.
- Learn to read…
This infographic displays where to look for information and where to search for finding public company information.
This infographic guide on the literature review process help researchers decide where to search, how to search, how to organize the search process and increase the productivity, and how evaluate scholarly articles. Altough the Guide is created to meet the needs of public administration research, the approaches can be used by other disicplines as well.
The infographic was originally developed for a management class. It is updated and revised to be applicable to other disciplines as well. The university logo was deleted for use by other campus.
A video was made to explain the 4-step source assessment.
Check out the updated 4-step Strategy for Evaluating Online Sources.
Prepared for a marketing research class which requires to find literature review and create citations.
editable PPT on general research process and different types of information sources. Prepared for Writing 200 class.
The presentation covers two sessions presentation of a business consulting session, including editable graphs for research process.
This is a lesson plan for FYE business IL session. The plan incorporated a role play active learning activity and framework concept information has value.
The presentation is for first-year experience class, in which students need to do their due deligence and find best practices from other University in the areas of diversity & inclusion, student success, sustainability, and wellness.
A graphic guide on country research focused on strategies in searching Business Source Complete to find various kinds of country reports in the database and also some other public resources.
Three pages allow you to print at bookmark size with the landscape layout.
A visual guide that explains where to find energy and sustainability information.
A visual research guide that is designed to help students with a small business research project.
A visual research guide that is designed to help students with a legal issue research project.
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to find statistics. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand economic information landscape. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand business information landscape. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to conduct position paper research. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to conduct legal issue research for the business plan. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to conduct international business analysis. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to conduct SWOT analysis. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).
Graphic research handout that will help student understand how to conduct market analysis. Print this handout into bookmark size: when printing PDF, choose page sizing & handling Multiple, page per sheet (Custom 2 by 1), page order (horizontal reversed), print on both sides of the paper (flip on short edge), orientation (landscape).