acronym soup

Provides brief, capsule reviews of all kinds of visualization projects.

Newsmap harvests data from Google News and reformats it into a treemap for a visual display. Readers can drill down by topic, or by geographic region.

George D. Kuh and Robert M. Gonyea (2003). The role of the academic library in promoting student engagement in learning. College & Research Libraries. 64:4, 256-282. http://crl.acrl.org/content/64/4/256.abstract

http://writing.byu.edu/static/documents/org/1176.pdf

DOI: 10.1086/517844

Alison Head Project Information Literacy: What Can We Learn about the Information Seeking Behavior of College Students Presented at the ALA Annual Conference 2013 http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2013/papers/Head_Project.pdf

(via Jossey-Bass::How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research, Volume 2) Comprehensive review of college student development theory.

http://www.frinq-workshop.michael-flower.com/resources/Thursday-the-18th/kim_sin.pdf

"Making decisions in today's world frequently requires processing a lot of information. Advertisements for consumer cleaning products make claims about the product's effectiveness. Patients make decisions about which course of treatment to follow. Government agencies and non-profits try to figure out the most effective way to spend limited funds. Sometimes, we base our decisions on the information we gleam from various descriptions of scientific studies. Frequently, these descriptions are delivered to us in one form or another by mass media. Sometimes, we encounter sources or pseudo-scientific studies, some of them taking great pains to appear considerably more credible than they actually are. How can we tell good studies from the bad? When are a study's conclusions relevant to the question we are considering? And how can we tell whether the size of the effect a study demonstrates makes it worth our while to worry about it in making our decisions? We will delve into these and related questions while considering a number of situations that call for a well thought out decision."

"Do humans really only use 10% of our brains? Do vaccines cause autism? Do astrological signs correlate with personality traits? Does birth order determine intelligence? Does Facebook make people sad? In this class students will investigate a broad range of pervasive beliefs with the goals of learning critical analysis, performing literature research and evaluating scientific data to draw conclusions—important skills for separating fact from fiction and succeeding in college. Students will be introduced to the concepts underlying common myths and learn how to develop a research question by delving into their own interests on a current topic in this field."

"The sister-wife of Ptolemy XIII, lover of Julius Caesar, and co-regent of Marc Antony, Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous individuals from antiquity. This course will attempt to answer the question: who was the real Cleopatra – wise ruler, conniving queen, or decadent temptress? The course will begin by examining the life of Cleopatra and the role she played in determining history during her lifetime. Then, the course will turn to the portrayal of Cleopatra in popular culture from antiquity to the modern period, looking at how contemporary society shapes history and memory. In addition to ancient sources, the course will analyze art works, including a painting at the Allen Memorial Museum of Art, literature and film. We will trace the changing interpretation of the figure of Cleopatra through different periods, particularly emphasizing the themes of artistic portrayal and realism, colonialism, cultural identity and the role of powerful women in ancient society. The course will focus on writing and analysis of different kinds of sources: literature, history, art, and film."

"The University of Oregon Documenting Freshman Year Experience Project is undertaken every Fall Term by a Residential Freshman Interest Groups (FIG) course. As part of each course students create weekly project entries in a variety of media that include ephemera and photographs taken during their first term at the University of Oregon."

The students enrolled in this FYS showcase their work in an annual Symposium. The library then archives the student work here.

Notice the care and attention paid to grounding student work in an understanding of Wikipedia's unique culture. 

http://www.tcnj.edu/~meolam/documents/Chucking_003.pdf

This is why I don't like checklists -- I think it teaches students to evaluate like this.

This is about PhD students, and it is about original research, but I think the basic premise holds for FY students -- we're asking them to dive into stuff *they* don't know about, where they don't know if they're asking the right questions or consulting the right sources.