Context: This activity is best suited for lessons with outcomes related to the scholarly conversation or identifying how authors use sources.
Assessment: The completed Google Doc can serve as formative assessment, ensuring students understand the concept. The Google Doc could also be a summative assessment to compare multiple sessions with the same outcome.
Time: depending on the rest of the lesson plan, between 20-60 minutes.
This class activity can take between 20-60 minutes. It introduces the frame "Scholarship as a Conversation" by playing with the analogy that developing a reference list is like deciding who to invite to a dinner party: you want the participants to have some things in common, but to have things to disagree about, too.
Context: This is a learning object - not activity - that can help students understand how a source relates to the topic and to other sources. It is best suited for learning outcomes related to synthesis or the scholarly conversation.
Assessment: If you are giving this to students before or after a class to complete on their own, there won't be any assessment of student learning. If you use this worksheet as part of an in-class teaching strategy, it can provide formative assessment.
Time: N/A - self-paced
This handout asks students to think about type of source, how a source relates to their ideas and how sources relate to one another. You can use this handout in class with sources a student just found or as an out of class assignment.
Context: This is a learning object - not activity - that can help students keep track of information sources used for an annotated bibliography or literature review. This worksheet can be given to students before or after a session, or can be worked through during the session as part of a teaching strategy focusing on synthesizing sources.
Assessment: If used in class, this worksheet can be used for formative assessments of student learning, or summative if you collect the worksheets from multiple classes with the same outcomes.
Time: N/A - self-paced
This template is a helpful addition to a citation manager, for students writing a literature review. The table breaks down important information about articles that one might want to include in their literature review, including main points, methodology, research questions, and any concept to further research. You might provide students with this template simply as a tool, or you might use it as an exploration exercise to get students thinking about the information necessary for a literature review.
Seniors writing thesis, or students in classes with original research components are most likely to benefit from using it.
The document is currently view-only. You will need to make a copy in order to edit it.
The bitly for this template is: bit.ly/litreviewtemplate
