Learning Goals for courses:
Every student is able to find scholarly journal articles from library databases and write in the APA style citation.
Ways of Assessing This Kind of Learning:
Students able to identify scholarly journal articles, use research strategies, and write in APA style.
Actual Teaching-Learning Activities:
Step 1 - Lecture: Explain what are scholarly journal articles, demonstrate how to choose databases and research strategies, and APA format.
Step 2 - Activities:
- assigned databases to groups to practice research strategies and find one scholarly journal articles
- share searching steps of the database with the whole class, how to determine if the article is a scholarly one, and citation in APA format
1. Ulrich's Periodical Directory will help students to determine if the journal is a scholarly/referred or not.
2. Refworks that students use to generate citation in APA style or other styles they choose.
With grad students, you're really lucky that you can anticipate a pretty self-sufficient group with good meta-cognitive skills. That said, some of the learning activities could be turned over to the students, e.g. step 1 you lecture and step 2 you have them practice, but perhaps you could flip that model and assign the groups specific databases to look at, have them view the help files and figure out advanced search strategies that they then have to relay to the whole class. It takes the weight off of you, and their accountability will help them to focus. Lots of ways to make this sort of thing really meaningful, and possibly even fun! Great start so far.
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