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Pedagogical Resources

Research Assignment Design: Overview, Southern Methodist University
Lists best practices for designing research assignments, including example assignments, learning outcomes, and how to link to the ACRL Research Framework.
 

Research Guidance Rubric for Assignment Design, Grand Valley State University Libraries
A rubric for instructors on developing research assignments.
 

Planning Checklist: Research Assignments, Maricopa Community Colleges
A checklist for instructors developing research assignments.

Threshold Achievement

Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy: Module descriptions, Carrick Enterprises, 2018.
This resource is based on testing models for information literacy, but also provides a detailed list of performance indicators for information literacy learning outcomes.

ACRL Information Literacy Framework

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, Association of College & Research Libraries, 2016

Includes a discussion of the six frames, with "Knowledge Practices" and "Learner Dispositions" listed for each.

Six Frames for Information Literacy Practice

Six Frames for Information Literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting the relationships between theory and practice., Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 5:1, 1-18, Christine Bruce, Sylvia Edwards & Mandy Lupton.

This paper provides six models for viewing information needs, and discusses how these might work together to deepen student understanding of research.

Using Critical Thinking Concepts

The Elements of Reasoning and the Intellectual Standards, The Foundation for Critical Thinking.

An Overview of How to Design Instruction Using Critical Thinking Concepts, The Foundation of Critical Thinking.

This framework reviews a standard that it deems universal, across a diverse range of thinking and reasoning subjects and topics.

Guided Inquiry Design

Guided Inquiry Design, Rutgers School of Communication and Information
This reviews six stages of students' research process.

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What is Research? (A Report), 2018, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities.