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Research This, Not That!

Research This, Not That!. Helping Faculty and Students Evaluate Research. Teaching and Learning Institute. August 15-16, 2013 Presenters: Charmayne Mulligan, cmulligan@davenport.edu Sue Offenbecker , soffenbecker@davenport.edu Gina Mezzano , gmezzano@davenport.edu.

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Research This, Not That!

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  1. Research This, Not That! Helping Faculty and Students Evaluate Research

  2. Teaching and Learning Institute • August 15-16, 2013 • Presenters: • Charmayne Mulligan, cmulligan@davenport.edu • Sue Offenbecker, soffenbecker@davenport.edu • Gina Mezzano, gmezzano@davenport.edu

  3. Learning Objectives • Understand students’ current research habits, especially with Internet-based materials • Develop stronger, clearer guidelines for secondary source use when creating assignments • Create problem-based assignments which encourage critical thinking around research use

  4. Learning Objectives • Critically evaluate sample student bibliographies to understand differences in source materials • Learn to use the interactive SEER rubric developed by Turnitin.com to evaluate student sources and help students evaluate their own materials • Receive tips and strategies on supporting students’ use and integration of source materials to improve readability and avoid plagiarism

  5. Current Research Habits 43% of student sources are not academic (“The Sources,” 2013) Students use the Internet for research, even when offered library databases, with no difference between class standing (Van Scoyoc & Cason, 2006) Link to library not as obvious; professors have responsibility librarians used to have (Robinson & Schlegl, 2005) Google, Wikipedia top student research sites (“The Sources,” 2013)

  6. Student’s Struggling? It’s No Wonder! Some examples of questionable source materials Daily Kos Failure Mag

  7. Some Sites Students are Using Self-publishing websites: Buzzle, EzineArticles, WikiHow “Answer” websites: Wikianswers, Ask.com, Yahoo Answers, ChaCha, WiseGeek, About.com Incomplete sources: Google Books, Amazon, GoodReads Commercial websites “Educational” sites Paper “mills” and essay “sharing” sites Parody sites – The Onion

  8. Most Popular Sites (Turnitin.com) Source: “Ratings,” n.d.

  9. Categories of Materials – Top Student Sources Most Popular Sites Cited on Turnitin.com

  10. Check the Nutritional Content Activity 1 Match the citation use issue with its passage

  11. Nutritional Content - Answers Poor integration of listed material Copied and pasted info (note change in font) Copied and pasted info (note change in voice) Overuse of quotations Poorly paraphrased information Unattributed claims

  12. Building Better Research Habits • Instruction + penalty = change (Robinson & Schlegl, 2005) • Developing clear guidelines from the start • Recipe for faculty • Criterion (intent, authority, author, timeliness, bias/objectivity, accuracy, reasonableness, concurrency with others sources, research/support) • “Research This, Not That!” handout

  13. “Food” Sources

  14. Building Better Research Habits Get More Out of Google Wikipedia, Google – What’s their Nutritional Value?

  15. Critically Evaluating Student Sources Activity 2: Bibliography Exercise – Can you spot the Junk Food?

  16. SEER Interactive Rubric • Interactive PDF File • Use in class with students to demonstrate range of sources and to help them understand levels of quality • Require students to complete rubric on all sources and report scores • Use yourself to score recommended sources for students • Sign up to use rubric • http://pages.turnitin.com/seer_rubric.html

  17. Help for Students to Evaluate Sources Practice the SEER Rubric (if time permits) The CRAAP Test - http://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf

  18. Permissions If we have provided you with a handout, you may use this with your students. If we have provided you with a link, that source has asked that you link to the site, not provide a handout.

  19. References Ratings for top student sources. (n.d.). Turnitin.com. Retrieved from http://www.turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/seer/he/all.php Robinson, A. M., & Schlegl, K. (2005, April). Student use of the Internet for research projects: A problem? Our problem? What can we do about it? PS, Political Science & Politics, 38(2), 311-315. The sources in student writing- Higher education. (2013). Turnitin.com. Retrieved from http://pages.turnitin.com/rs/iparadigms/images/Turnitin_WhitePaper_Sources_in_Student_Writing_HE.pdf Tremblay, K. R., & Downey, E. P. (2004, Summer). Identifying and evaluating research-based publications: Enhancing undergraduate student critical thinking skills. Education, 124(4), 734-740. Van Scoyoc, A. M., Cason, C. (2006, January). The electronic academic library: Undergraduate research behavior in a library without books. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 6(1), 47-58.

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