Research
Assignment
Information Competence
Skill:
- Students must recognize whether
research meets requirements of assignment
Ways to incorporate this
skill into Research Assignments
- Require a review of topics
mid-way to due date. Asks students to report why they modified their initial
research statement.
- Asks students to provide
opinions on both sides of their topics in their research assignments.
- Asks students to research
and deconstruct a controversial topic in Black Studies.
- Test students on their analysis
of controversial topics.
Information
Competence Skill:
The information literate student
acknowledges the use of information sources in communicating the product or
performance.
Ways to incorporate
this skill into Research Assignments
- Require that students learn
to cite electronic sources.
- Provide a handout with example
of various citations for various sources.
- Provide a list of WEB links
to electronic style manuals.
- Approving research topics
before students begin assignments
- Breaking a research assignments
into parts and one component would be providing an annotated bibliography
of sources the student has found and has decided to include in the research
project.
