Standard 1: The
students who is information literate accesses information efficiently and
effectively.
The students are provided opportunities to learn and identify different
types of resource such as fiction and non-fiction and how they are organized,
using a computerized catalog, and looking for information in books.
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Students have the skills to look
up information, they are able to answer questions in class, but they
cannot transfer this knowledge outside of class or even during open library
time.
How can the students successfully transfer the knowledge they are
learning outside of class?
What type of assessment would benefit the students in this situation?
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The students never have to find
the material on their own. There is always someone to show them the
books or where to look. Requiring the children to use the card catalog
or locate the call number will allow the students to transfer their knowledge
and gain confidence in their skills
A performance assessment seemed to be the best assessment for the
time frame and limited paper resources available in the school.
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Standard 6:
The student who is an independent learner is information literate
and strives for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.
Students are given the skills use a card catalog, and locate books
of a shelf on a weekly or daily basis based on individual use of the library.
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Why can’t children locate a book
of a shelf??? How can children become more confident and independent
in their own abilities to locate information and materials?
Can observation be the only form of assessment? Would a rubric
be of any benefit to the children in this case?
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I have learned that the best
way to get students to transfer knowledge is to have them actually perform
the task. You can talk to students and simulate situations, but
it is not until the students actually are responsible for locating the
books or identifying the parts of a book that they truly understand.
While observation is a great way to see if the students are able
to understand, I found that performance assessments along with observations
worked out well in seeing if the students are able to transfer their skills.
I designed a very simple rubric for each of the assessments and found
that they were very helpful when scoring the students work. It helped
me stay consistent in my scoring of the students work.
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