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Information Literacy Assignments That Work!

This guide is intended to provide faculty some resources for incorporating information literacy concepts into their courses and/or existing assignments.

Olympic College Core Ability

 

 Information Literacy and Technology Core Ability

  • Graduates use strategies to search for information that enhance the acquisition of knowledge.
  • Graduates evaluate and appraise sources.
  • Graduates access and use information and/or technology ethically, legally and/or responsibly.
  • Graduates use various inquiry tools and different formats of information e.g. media.
  • Graduates use technology and information appropriate to field or discipline, synthesizing information to formulate insights and create knowledge.
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Scroll down to see the current Information Literacy and Technology assessment rubric.

Olympic College Information Literacy and Technology Core Ability Assessment Rubric, Updated 11/2/2010

Information Literacy and Technology Rubric

Outcomes, Performance Indicators, Self-Evaluation Statement

Revised during Summer Institute 2010

 

Information Literacy and Technology Competency Skills

Emerging

Need for improvement overshadows apparent strengths. Evidence of the outcome is present.

Developing

Strengths and need for improvement are about equal.

Competent

Shows skill in this outcome. Improvement still desired.

Strong

Applies outcome in multiple contexts. Many strengths are present.

Outcome 1: Graduates use strategies to search for information that enhance the acquisition of knowledge.

Performance Indicators: Students access needed information effectively and efficiently. Students extract, record, and manage the information and its sources. Students apply new and prior information to inform and revise their search strategies.

An Emerging student can:

Locate/find information when prompted in convenient and known sources using simple search strategies. Identify useful concepts or data.

A Developing student can:

Collect/determine sources central to his/her own interests and/or educational needs by using search strategies appropriate to those retrieval systems. Practice/participate in new strategies, although is sometimes inconsistent in his/her searching. Construct/produce a system for organizing information.

A Competent student can:

Generate and formulate questions and search strategies, using them to make inquiries. Test several research methods to modify and/or update what he/she knows. Recognize when to ask for help and clarification. Combine/integrate/modify/ reorganize text, multi-media, and data, as needed, transferring them from their original locations and formats to new contexts. Test various technologies to manage information.

A Strong student can:

Support regular inquiry and the acquisition of new knowledge. Choose creative and flexible information seeking strategies in order to navigate the unfamiliar, take action or solve a problem

Outcome 2: Graduates evaluate and appraise sources.

Performance Indicators: Students make comparative evaluations/ appraisals of the sources they identify.

An Emerging student can:

Identify/select convenient and known sources of information. Give examples of sources that are more credible and/or reliable than others.

A Developing student can:

Construct/develop inquiry questions without being prompted. Determine when additional information is needed. Collects/selects sources based on context and need.

A Competent student can:

Analyze/appraise/evaluate sources, see differences and select from among them, and use them based on his/her understanding of their context—including the culture in which they originate.

A Strong student can:

Appraise/compare/critique/ evaluate appropriate sources to make sure he/she is accessing relevant information. Appraise/compare/critique/ evaluate content, contextually, for quality, relevance and perspective.

Outcome 3: Graduates access and use information and/or technology ethically, legally and/or responsibly.

Performance Indicators: Students follow laws, regulations, institutional policies, and excepted practices in the discipline related to the access and use of information and technology.

An Emerging student can:

Express/explain how technology and retrieval systems and information can be used appropriately or inappropriately, e.g., intellectual property.

A Developing student can:

Apply applicable laws, regulations, and standards regarding the use of technology and information systems and information. Produce assignments in an appropriate documentation style when given direction, but may apply it inconsistently to cite sources.

A Competent student can:

Integrate knowledge of laws, regulation, and standards when using technology, retrieval systems, and information, including the legal acquisition, storage, and dissemination of text, data, images, and sound. Incorporate an appropriate documentation style for his/her topic and/or discipline and consistently apply it to cite sources.

A Strong student can:

Appraise/critique/defend/justify ethical standards in order to use technology and to use and document information appropriately and responsibly.

Outcome 4: Graduates use various inquiry tools and different formats of information e.g. media.

Performance Indicators: Students employ a variety of serach tools and access various meda, both print-based and electronic.

An Emerging student can:

Identify/select search tools that are readily available. Express/explain that medium can impact the message, especially visual and digital media.  

A Developing student can:

Employ/use/utilize required search tools with some direction. Articulate/determine the benefits and limitations of digital media.    

A Competent student can:

Design/develop/produce creative projects using a variety of tools. Analyze/recognize how digital media can create new custom information on demand, determined by the relationships among multiple data sources.

A Strong student can:

Choose/evaluate appropriate technological and organizational tools in order to access and manipulate information. Summarize how access to digital media may be restricted and/or modified by identification and location.       

Outcome 5: Graduates use technology and information appropriate to field or discipline, synthesizing information to formulate insights and create knowledge.

Performance Indicators: Students use technology to access and/or apply information to achieve goals, create new possibilities and to solve problems.

An Emerging student can:

Identify/list multiple potential sources of information. Identify/give examples of information resources and technology.  

A Developing student can:

Apply/contribute new information to existing knowledge and experience. Employ/use/utilize techniques, skills, and computers to solve problems.    

A Competent student can:

Incorporate/integrate his/her previously held beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge with discovered knowledge. Recognize appropriate techniques and tools for a specific discipline task.

A Strong student can:

Critique and synthesize new information with his/her current understanding and experience in order to create something new, to acquire insight, to transform his/her values, or to expand his/her knowledge base. Assess the utility and limitations of computational tools to solve problems and create designs. Choose/evaluate which technique or tools are most appropriate to complete a task.