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Essential Learning Outcomes: Information Literacy

Overview of Tri-C's Essential Learning Outcomes

Description

Guide to Information Literacy

Intended Learning Outcome:

Acquire, evaluate, and use information from credible sources in order to meet information needs for a specific research purpose.

Assessment may include but is not limited to the following criteria and intended outcomes:

Acquires needed information

  • Identifies the need for additional information to support research
  • Locates sources that are relevant to the topic and type of research
  • Uses a variety of research strategies to find relevant information
  • Gathers reputable background information on a research topic
  • Distinguishes between reputable and non-reputable sources
  • Uses primary and secondary sources, recognizing the differences between them

​Use credible information effectively for a specific purpose

  • Incorporates information by means of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing to support conclusions
  • Synthesizes information to advance the purpose of the research project
  • Integrates information in an organized, structured, and sophisticated way
  • Evaluates sources for reliability, validity, authority, and timeliness as appropriate to the conventions of the academic discipline
  • Recognizes and avoids sources that engage in prejudice, deception and manipulation

​Uses and documents information ethically

  • Incorporates information in a way that is true to the original source(s)
  • Uses an appropriate citation style for citing sources and others' ideas to avoid intentional and unintentional plagiarism
  • Understands the ethical and legal restrictions on information sharing, copyright, and/or confidentiality

How To Align - Information Literacy Assignment

Rubric

Information Literacy Rubric

Acquire, evaluate, and use information from credible sources in order to meet information needs for a specific research purpose.

Criteria Inadequate Developing Competent Proficient
Acquires needed
information		 Does not acquire
needed
information		 Acquires limited
information to meet
the needs of the
research project		 Acquires adequate
information to meet
the needs of the
research project		 Acquires substantial
and relevant
information to meet
the needs of the
research project
Uses credible
information
effectively for a
specific purpose		 Uses little to no
credible 
information		 Uses credible
information, but lacks
synthesis and
integration		 Uses credible
information;
synthesizes and 
integrates effectively to
advance the purpose of
the research project		 Uses credible
information with
sophistication;
synthesizes and
integrates
information
effectively to
advance the purpose
of the research 
project
Uses and
documents
information
ethically		 Does not use or
document
information
ethically		 Uses or documents
some information
ethically		 Uses and documents
most information
ethically and carefully		 Uses and documents
all information
ethically and
carefully

 

Sample Assignment for Liberal Arts

Sample Assignments - STEM

Introducing Information Literacy to Mathematics Classrooms: A Cross-Case Analysis, by Ander W. Erickson

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