Criteria for assessment: the evidence you present must show you can: | Checklist: check that your evidence shows what you have done to: |
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Develop a strategy for using skills in information literacy over an extended period of time. |
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Establish opportunities for using information literacy skills and clearly identify the outcomes you hope to achieve. | Identify where you can use and improve your information literacy skills (e.g. learning about new methods or techniques, seeking and using feedback) within your study or work activities. |
| Recognise a knowledge gap and define the information needed to fill it. |
| Identify your targets and goals, explaining why you have chosen them. |
| Establish the criteria you will use to judge your progress and performance, and in seeking feedback from others. |
| Identify relevant sources and research the information you need for planning purposes. |
| List reference sources and resources that you might use (e.g. librarians, tutors, reference books, the internet, catalogues and databases). |
Plan your use of information literacy skills and make a reasoned selection of methods for achieving the quality of outcomes required. | Draw up a plan for achieving your goal(s) that: |
| • divides the work into stages; |
| • identifies interim targets; |
| • gives a time schedule and deadline for each stage. |
| Keep notes and/or a log to record changes to your plans, and reasons for them. |
| Take into account factors that may affect your plans (e.g. access to information, work patterns, copyright, intellectual property rights, other commitments). |
| Select, giving reasons, the methods you are going to use to achieve your goals and targets. |
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Monitor progress and adapt your strategy, as necessary, to achieve the quality of outcomes required. |
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Explore different information sources, developing alternative lines of enquiry where appropriate. | List information sources you have used. |
| Identify the type of information you are seeking, the questions you have formulated and the appropriateness of different sources. |
Use different search strategies and tools effectively and critically evaluate information to meet your purpose. | List your search strategies, identifying what worked well and what did not. |
| Identify which tools you found most effective in helping you track down information. |
| Establish and apply criteria you used to assess the quality of your results. |
Monitor and critically reflect on your use of information literacy skills, adapting your strategy as necessary to produce the quality of outcomes required. | Establish and use criteria to help you monitor your progress and critically evaluate your results to check that they are meeting your requirements. |
| Use feedback and your own self-assessment to check your skills development. |
| Describe any changes you had to make to your plans along the way. |
| Identify any modifications you have made to your strategy. |
| ‘Stand back’ at intervals to reflect on your progress and performance. |
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Evaluate your overall strategy and present outcomes from your work, including citations and a bibliography. |
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Interpret results and identify the main findings from your work, including evidence to support your conclusions. | Identify where you have interpreted the results of your information searches (e.g. analysed data, examined generalisations, assessed coverage of searches and the authority and authenticity of sources). |
| Assess the quality of your main findings against criteria. |
Organise and clearly present information to suit your purpose and audience, ensuring that the information is accurate. | Identify the audience(s) for your work and make judgements about how best to present your information. |
| Explain why the format you have chosen is appropriate for your purpose and your audience. |
| Identify where you have used your information literacy skills in your work (e.g. in citations, lists of references, bibliographies). |
| Use criteria to judge the quality of your presentation. |
Assess the effectiveness of your strategy, including factors that had an impact on the outcomes, and identify ways of further developing your information literacy skills. | Reflect on and assess the quality of your information literacy work by making connections between criteria you have set, feedback you have received and your own judgement of your performance. |
| Reflect on and assess the effectiveness of your strategy for developing your skills. What worked well and what worked less well? |
| Identify those factors that affected the production and presentation of your work (e.g. availability and quality of resources, working environment, level of your expertise). |
| Relate your original goals, targets and criteria to your progress so far and to possibilities for future development. |