Trails+Assessments

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TRAILS is a knowledge assessment tool with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. The assessment items are based on the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and those from the Common Core State Standards Initiative http://www.trails-9.org

Five categories of Assessments

 * 1. Develop topic **
 * Develop focus.
 * Recognize the hierarchical relationships of broader and narrower topics.
 * Identify individuals to help you focus a topic.
 * Identify manageable topics based on the parameters of an assignment.

2. **Identify potential sources**
 * Understand the types of containers in which information is housed (ex: different types of libraries, books, databases, online catalogs, primary sources, etc.)
 * and the types of information that can be found within each type of container.
 * Understand the roles and limitations of differing types of information sources (encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, etc.) and finding tools (research databases, online catalogs, bibliographic citations, people, etc.)
 * Select the most productive information sources and finding tools to address a given information need

3. **Develop, use, and revise search strategies**


 * Understand how to use a given type of information container in order to retrieve information (ex: index and table of contents in a book, an online catalog, etc.).
 * Select search terms.
 * Develop a search strategy for the topic appropriate to a given finding tool.
 * Understand how to use Boolean operators.
 * Revise search strategies when too few, too many, or irrelevant results are returned


 * 4. Evaluate sources and information **
 * Recognize bias.
 * Differentiate between fact and opinion.
 * Determine the accuracy, authority, coverage, currency, and relevancy of information and/or information sources.


 * 5. Recognize how to use information responsibly, ethically, and legally **
 * Recognize how to paraphrase correctly.
 * Understand the concept of intellectual property (especially copyright, fair use, and plagiarism).
 * Understand the concept of intellectual freedom.
 * Create bibliographies and parenthetical citations according to an appropriate style manual.

Class Pages
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Links
http://trails-informationliteracy.wikispaces.com @http://libguides.library.kent.edu/t2c