Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research is a website tutorial that presents entire skill and knowledge acquisition and application on formulating research questions, evaluating and selecting the correct sources for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more. Short videos, easy-to-understand explanations, and self-quizzes are used to carefully focus on research capabilities by framing so learners can achieve research competencies in a self-paced manner.
Type of Material:
Tutorial
Recommended Uses:
Students can use this handbook as they produce a research paper. The instructor can assign chapters as homework to read at each step of writing a research paper, and then the students can discuss issues in class, and refer to the handbook as they create their papers
Technical Requirements:
Any web browser available to any operating system and in any mobile phone device
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Plan and write a research paper. Specifically:
Gain knowledge about the nature of inquiry as well as qualitative and quantitative research methods;
Describe how to identify the inquiry and research question;
Explaine how to go about gathering resources in a systematic way;
Discuss how to understand sources; and
learn from others.
Target Student Population:
College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional, Library and information professional majors, Communications studies majors, English composition students
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Basic ICT Skills
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Ohio State university librarians created this handbook, providing accurate and current information in a self-contained document. The information is presented in a very logical manner that can be used in all academic domains. Technically, the links all work and are attributed.
Concerns:
Images are not attributed or ADA-compliant.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The research tutorial’s outcomes significantly include knowledge, process or skill, understanding and product performance as levels of assessments; as such, the overall learning objectives exemplify ICT literacy standards. The content is presented in a logical sequence of research steps, which builds on prior content. A variety of approaches have been used to ensure that the teaching and learning objectives are met at every stage. The overall concepts are efficiently developed, and demonstrated the use in real life what they can make out of what they have learned. Instructors can use the entire handbook as a reference tool for students to consult when creating a research paper, or instructors can focus on specific sections of the handbook, incorporating those concepts into their curriculum easily.
Concerns:
Some assessment links need to be improved. The tutorial should be updated to tie standards to the 2017 ACRL information literacy framework.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The tutorial is written in a professional manner and is well-organized. The handbook's writing is clear and concise, and visual aspects help understanding. There are links to other resources, including videos and learning activities, including scenarios, to enable users to practice the new information. The handbook can be accessed and used independently, with little technology needed. The document is minimally ADA-compliant.
Concerns:
The document is text heavy. No help feature is included.
Since the tutorial is not downloadable and it is purely a web-based format, it might be a good initiative to make this downloadable in some countries where internet connectivity is difficult.
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