[LM_NET] HIT: Research Pre-Assessment

[Jacqueline Henry <jhenry@GANANDA.ORG>]

Research Pre-Assessment

Thank you all for your responses to my request.  


ORIGINAL REQUEST

Basically, I am looking for some sort of pre-assessment of research skills for 9th 
graders.  I want to have a better picture of where kids are with their skills.  
Actually, I need 2 things:

1. Because of time contraints, some kind of  "quick and dirty" pencil and paper 
survey that could be completed by students in about 15 minutes.

2.  A more detailed survey or activity that I could use  next year before we jump 
into teaching the research process. 


RESPONSES:

All the responses will be very useful- both for the near term and the future.  I 
have found several good ideas.  Maury Brown and I have had an interesting 
conversation & I have ended up adapting Maury's quiz.  Both are now posted on the 
LM_NET wiki at:

http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/Documents

I will be exploring the other ideas in the (hopefully) near future.


Most frequently suggested:  The TRAILS site.
http://trails-9.org/index.php?page=home

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More info about trails:

certainly you should look into the TRAILS Assessment for 9's. It's
done entirely online (kids have an access code) and gives you a very helpful
printout of how the group does on different literacy skills.

http://www.trails9.org

Everything you need to register (free) and set up to have a class or classes
take the test is right there. just work your way through the site.This was
developed several years ago at Kent State and is extremely informative.
They are now field testing a middle school version, I think, but I have used
this one for 8s prior to instructing them as they got ready for their first
real paper.

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Why don't you create a blank flow chart and ask students to write down
the step-by-step process they normally use when doing this kind of
work?

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Have you seen this issue?
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqweb.cfm - a good
chuck of the print is there, and my column might help. 





Jacquie

"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for poetry and to 
put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American way."

From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
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Jacquie Henry, MLS
Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
Gananda Central School District
3195 Wiedrick Road
P.O. Box 609
Macedon, NY  14502
315-986-3521 x 3144
jhenry@gananda.org
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