Information Literacy

Information Literacy empowers students to seek, evaluate, use, and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, educational, and occupational goals. Students will develop the skills to proactively seek out relevant information, critically evaluate its reliability and significance, appropriately apply it, and ethically cite it in order to achieve specific goals. Students must make decisions regarding synthesizing information from a variety of sources and utilize it effectively to make an argument or solve a problem.

OUTCOME

Students will seek information, evaluate its accuracy, reliability, and significance, and use it appropriately and ethically to achieve a goal.

RUBRICS

POSSIBLE ASSIGNMENT TYPES

Research assignment, essay, speech or debate, source authority evaluation, search statement construction, information evaluation, critical reading exercise, research journal, annotated bibliography, copyright fair use application, or quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing exercise.

Student assignments feature a wealth of resources, examples, and balanced arguments supporting the research question.
Students incorporate relevant resources that address key aspects of their topic.
Works Cited/References encompass a range of formats, including articles from databases like Ebsco/Gale, open web URLs, and digital or print books.
Students reference or cite resources that directly relate to specific elements of the research questions.
Students demonstrate the use of pertinent information by evaluating author credentials, potential conflicts of interest, and publication dates of cited works.
Students contribute to class discussions by interpreting how research findings could inform solutions to contemporary ethical dilemmas.