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The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide

Strategies to guide students towards meeting instructors' expectations for critical thinking. Includes sections on active learning, assessment, and the ACRL Framework.

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The Fun of Motivation: Crossing the Threshold Concepts

Combines theory with specific lesson plans and assessment options related to ACRL's threshold concepts.

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Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts

Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts provides a balance of theoretical and practical to help readers both conceptually and pragmatically with their work in supporting student learning, including chapters in

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Scholarly Article Autopsy

This lesson is intended as a single session within a major’s research methods course. Rather than using a shorter “scholarly vs. non-scholarly” comparison worksheet, this activity asks students to work in groups to systematically examine a scholarly article in depth, identify and evaluate its various components visually and in writing, and then compare it to a non-scholarly article on the same topic. Groups then report back to the entire class.

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Scholarly Articles: Reading for Understanding

This activity/assignment was designed for a first year composition course in collaboration with an English/Writing instructor. It could be used in an information literacy credit course, First Year Experience course, or in another discipline-specific context. The purpose of the lesson is to lay the foundation for students to be able to read scholarly work more effectively and critically.

Assignment

P.R.O.V.E.N. Source Evaluation Process

UPDATE: PLEASE USE SIFT & PICK INSTEAD!

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Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are learner-centered activities that engage students in learning and yield actionable assessment results.

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Primary and Secondary Sources Tutorial

This interactive learning module takes students through the process of identifying the differences between primary and secondary sources. The structure of the tutorial consists of four parts.

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