Portfolio Guidelines
The portfolio is designed to help you develop a practice of tracking search strategies, processes, and paths; taking appropriate notes, bibliographic information, and evaluations as you work; and developing an ability to assess what works and what doesn’t work in search processes.
The portfolio will include
· Your Research Log
· Your Self-assessment Essay
Research Log (20 points)
As you conduct searches or discover new information or develop new ideas about information or the process of finding it, you will note that in a research log as you work. You may keep it strictly for this class or you may also include research strategies, track bibliographic information, or include anything relevant for this or any other class. The log should show
- how you conduct information searches
- what you discover
- the problems you encounter
- how you try to solve those problems
- how you grow as a researcher
You should add at least one entry to your research log every week for a minimum total of ten. You will write and submit formal entries at least once a week.
Self-assessment Essay (10 points)
This essay should
- address the course objectives listed in the syllabus and your assessment of your progress toward achieving them
- cite examples of items in your portfolio to illustrate your comments
- discuss your successes and your failures and how you worked towards solving them. In searching for information, sometimes the wrong roads you take are as important as the right ones
This essay should be thoughtful and reflective.
Your self-assessment essay is extremely important and will contribute to the overall understanding of your development and progress in this information literacy class.
Portfolio Rubric
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Level One
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Level Two
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Develops and evaluates research processes and strategies
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Demonstrates little development or awareness of a personal strategy for searching for information
· Chooses to use largely one type of reference tool (e.g., internet) to find sources of information
· Repeats unfruitful attempts to gather information with little problem solving demonstrated.
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Demonstrates the appropriateness of Information collected
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· Tends to search for only one type of information
· Shows little discrimination in selecting reasonable sources about a topic (e.g., all sources may be very general or only vaguely related to a topic).
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Portfolio Rating Scale
The work of the student demonstrates
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Consistently
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Often
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Sometimes
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Seldom
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Appropriateness of Information collected
· Demonstrates some savvy about the information collected (e.g., selecting specific, contextualized information about a topic; being able to show why a source fits a topic; or be able to demonstrate why a source is important to a topic).
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Develops and evaluates research processes and strategies
· Evaluates the usefulness of personal research strategies and processes
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