Toolkit Evaluating Sources to Find Quality Research (Handout Version) Three questions you can ask to determine whether a source is a good fit for your needs. Resource Type: Handouts Categories: Evaluating
Toolkit Evaluating Web Sources Students evaluate web sources by answering questions about the author, publisher, and sources used. They then present their responses to the class. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating
Toolkit Evaluating web sources (interactive tutorial) This interactive tutorial will help students learn and apply criteria for evaluating sources so they can select quality sources in the future. Students will receive a copy of their responses to the tutorial via email once they complete it. To assign students to complete the tutorial, simply share the tutorial link with them and create an assignment dropbox where they can upload a PDF of the email they received. Resource Type: Tutorials Categories: Evaluating
Toolkit Finding scholarly sources in Anatomy This interactive tutorial will help students learn about key library resources, develop an understanding of the definition and purpose of peer review, and find and cite peer reviewed articles themselves using the Health and Medicine Resources combined database search (which searches MEDLINE, CINAHL, Health Source, Academic Search Premier, and others) and ProQuest's Biological Sciences Database. Students will receive a copy of their responses to the tutorial via email once they complete it. To assign students to complete the tutorial, simply share the tutorial link with them and create an assignment dropbox where they can upload a PDF of the email they received. Resource Type: Tutorials Categories: Evaluating Finding
Toolkit Identifying characteristics of least credible and most credible sources Students brainstorm types of sources that they think are “credible” and “not credible” in order to elicit a conversation about a) what a source is and b) what makes it credible or not. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating