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Submitted by Alexander Justice on June 2nd, 2019
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Short Description: 

In this activity, students learn how to locate and select appropriate primary sources for their assignment using library guides (libguides) and the library databases list. Students then analyze an example primary source to improve their primary sources literacy.

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Recognizing Primary Sources in the Library.pdfdisplayed 1365 times24.19 KB
Activity 1 Task Cards Locate Databases.pdfdisplayed 846 times59.71 KB
List of databases activity 1 should generate.pdfdisplayed 742 times34.6 KB
Activity 2 Questions Handout.pdfdisplayed 769 times19.64 KB
Learning Outcomes: 

After completing the library instruction session, students will be able to:
• Locate, identify, and select relevant online primary source collections (databases)
• Given a facsimile primary source, identify the location of the original, and the format of the facsimile
• Identify metadata provided with the source
• Locate books and articles that will support analysis and research involving the source

Discipline: 
History

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

We created this activity for a course that is flagged for information literacy in our core curriculum. These courses in our History department tend to have annotated bibliography assignments as well as primary source assignments. First year courses introduce annotated bibliographies and how to produce them, so the information literacy flag here has to address more advanced literacy, in this case primary source literacy.

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Suggested Citation: 
Justice, Alexander. "Recognizing Primary Sources in the Library." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/recognizing-primary-sources-library.
Submitted by Elisa Acosta on July 2nd, 2017
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Short Description: 

This activity was created to introduce first-year students to library resources they can use for their annotated bibliography assignment. In pairs, students are assigned a task card that requires them to find an information source. After finding a source meeting the criteria of their task card, the student teams input their answers into a Google Form. Formative assessment takes place during class, allowing the librarian to modify instruction on-the-spot based on the responses from the form.

Summative assessment takes place at the end of the semester, when a rubric is applied to a sample of student responses from the activity. This assessment provides a more thorough picture of where students may have succeeded or struggled with the activity, and may provide ideas for how to adjust the activity in the future.

This recipe is from The First-Year Experience Cookbook, edited by Raymond Pun and Meggan Houlihan and written by Elisa Slater Acosta and Katherine Donaldson.

Learning Outcomes: 

The student will use information ethically by providing basic citation information for their source.
The student will be able to identify the appropriate information type based on their information need.
The student will be able to properly identify the format of the information source they find.
The student will be able to use effective keywords for their information need.
The student will be able to describe the purpose of a specific information source.
The student will be able to articulate how they could support a social justice argument using a source.
The student will be able to find a relevant source to match their information need.

Individual or Group:

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This activity takes place after the Research Exploration Exercise and before the Annotated Bibliography .

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Suggested Citation: 
Acosta, Elisa. "Taste Testing for Two: Using Formative and Summative Assessment." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2017. https://projectcora.org/assignment/taste-testing-two-using-formative-and-summative-assessment.