Featured Resource: The Challenges of being an Elementary Student Searcher
Proven results!
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Pretest Resultsn = 51Average score = 56.4 |
Posttest resultsn = 32Average score = 65.7 |
The charts above compare how librarians and teachers performed prior to the Investigative Searching 20/10 course and afterwards. The improvement in one week is statistically significant. While the results don't resemble a normal distribution (due to small sample size) the outcomes are consistent: training with practice works!
Continuing into October, we are offering Investigative Searching 20/10 with back-to-school pricing. This self-paced course in evaluation techniques is designed for students as well as adults. Over 60 librarians and teachers around the world and nearly 1,000 middle school and high school students tried Investigative Searching 20/10 this summer with remarkable results, significantly improving their ability to find and evaluate information in just 8 hours. This assessment and tutorial package helps to develop critical skills in finding and evaluating information about Web page content, authors, publishers, date, citation and plagiarism. Individual and group pricing is available: a single enrollment is just $29; much less for a hundred or more. Used for professional development, educators earn 8 CPDUs.
Explore ways you can use these performance-based materials directly with students, how to diagnose and effectively address deficient informaton skills.
It's a very scalable product and can be used efficiently with hundreds, even thousands of students at a time. To preview the course, click here and login as 'guest.'
Our Model
Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves Internet search skills that start with understanding how digital information is different from print information, knowing how to use specialized tools for finding digital information and strengthening the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.
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