Assessment Ideas

These suggestions are for assessment activities that incorporate information literacy. Please send any further ideas or suggestions to the Reference Services Librarian.

To identify assessment ideas for specific information literacy learning outcomes, explore the Information Literacy framework.

• Alternatives to the recommended text
• Annotated bibliography
• Annotated bibliography - justification
• Annotated bibliography - web sources
• Anthology
• Anthology for unit
• Autobiography & seconday sources
• Bibliography update
• Biography
• Browse the shelves first
• Career choice
• Compare by sources
• Compare by years
• Contradict your perspective
• Convert a newspaper article to a scholarly article
• Criticism of literature
• Database analysis
• Different accounts of same event
• Double entry journal
• Editorial
• Encyclopaedia entry
• Evaluation of own work
• Evaluation of source
• Journal analysis
• Keywords
• Legislation progression
• Letter to government
• Newspaper article
• Nobel prize
• Policy progression
• Popular magazine article sources
• Popular vs scholarly
• Poster presentation
• Primary sources
• Primary & secondary sources
• Psychological tests
• Read the references
• Reference guide
• Report
• Research paper
• Research trends
• Review
• Same article/different journals
• Scrapbook
• Search strategy
• Search strategy paraphrase
• Statistics
• Topic by discipline
• Web evaluation
• Web evaluation - own assessment
• Web perspectives