GE INFORMATION LITERACY GOALS &

COMPETENCIES: AREA A- CRITICAL THINKING

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GE Program and Area Distribution  | Area Competencies

GOAL I: Student understands how information is defined by experts and non-experts alike, and recognizes how that knowledge can help determine the direction of their search for specific information.

Competencies Learned:

  • Student knows how knowledge in the research community is generated and disseminated and is able to determine if an information source has been generated by that community.
  • Student can formulate a research question and can construct an appropriate strategy.

GOAL II: Student understands the importance of the organizational content, bibliographic structure, function, and use of information sources.

Competencies Learned:

  • Student can evaluate the usefulness of an information source in terms of author's credentials, timeliness, scope, audience, structure, content, and bias. resentation, credibility, timeliness, and bias.
  • Student knows the difference between and can create a bibliography, footnotes, references;
  • Student know the difference between popular and scholarly sources;
  • Students using a citation from an information source can locate the title cited;

GOAL III:The student can identify and use appropriate information from information sources or information systems.

Competencies Learned:

  • Students can use OPAC and electronic indexes beyond author, title, and subject access and are able to use controlled vocabulary (LCSH, thesauri) in locating sources of information.
  • Student can construct a search query using Boolean logic, proximity operators, truncation and/or keywords using the  electronic information sources.
  • Student is familiar with and can decipher the different fields or field tags present in a bibliographic record especially those generated by electronic information resources.

GOAL IV:Student understands the way collections of information sources are physically organized and accessed.

Competencies Learned:

  • Student knows when it is appropriate to use Inter Library Loan
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-Adapted from ACRL's Model Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction

by Donna M. Ohr and Gabriela Sonntag