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50 Minute Instructor: Creating Learning Objectives

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Goal: Students will understand and use scholarly research resources in electronic & print form to create a “critical biography”

A 1. Students will understand the strengths and A2. Students willunderstand the Strengths & weaknesses of Printweaknesses of General Web Resources & electronic resourcessubscribed to or created by RU librarians.

A1a. Students will understand what search A1b. Students will understand the A2a. Students will understand the A2b. Students will understand different

engines can do: Search engines “authority” of a web site: who created it? currency of information in collections live in different libraries, and

can search by text; by indexed term, by Can I verify the authorship? What is the monographs vs. periodicals. Librarians have subject specialties.

popularity of site (Google type). Search engines author’s point of view? When was itcannot see past fire walls, into databases not created? How recently was it updated? A2c. Students will understand that

A2d. Students will understand that emailCreated as static pages, into subscription only Does the information seem “crazy”? SAL e-resources are screened &

and their library accounts (cards) requireResources. Selected by librarians

activation.

A2e.Students will understand the difference A2f. Students will understand the time required to

between a catalog and an indexobtain books and articles, Including ILL.

A2g. Students will understand thedifference between scholarly &

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Goal: Students will understand and use scholarly research resources in electronic & print form to create a “critical biography”

B1. Students will gain information B2. The student will acquire information To direct a topic. to write Her paper.

B1a. Students will use encyclopedias, B2a. The student will use the RUL Dictionaries, research guides to narrow website to locate information. topic from broad to specific

B2b. The student will consult with a B1b. Student will know when enough research librarian on her research topic. for her topic has been gathered.

B2c. The student will know if enough B1c. Student will have a personal opinion information has been gathered.About her topic.

B2d. The student will identify B1d. The interview subject should be databases/indexes useful for her topic. Accessible.

B2e. The student will choose effective search terms to isolate information on her topic.

B2f. The student will use indexes/databases to Locate citations.

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Start with a general phrase or sentence that uses“valuing”, “being creative”, “appreciating”, or “understanding”.

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Students are required to use Web pages for at least one citation in a research paper in a writing course called “Photography and Visual Culture”.

The instructor wants you to teach students how to findappropriate Web pages and how to evaluate them.

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Creating assessments, continued.

Condition Performance Standard

(Objective B2f)Given results from one Student will discriminate Student will select aelectronic index and between journal and book book and a journalone print index citations article from a list of 5

possible answers.

Student will also selectthe correct screen cap-ture of an IRIS searchto locate a book’s author and title, and onescreen capture to a journal in IRIS from a journal selection.