Evaluation Criteria
Boolean Searching
Searching & URL's
Critical Thinking
Miscellaneous
100
How recently the information was published.
What is currency?
100
The three main Boolean operators.
What is AND, OR, and NOT?
100
link: or whois:
What are Google site search terms?
100
Gives a first-hand account of an event.
What is a primary source?
100
A periodical with visual appeal that focuses on appealing to a broad audience.
What are popular journals (magazines)?
200
Has a PhD, has published several books and multiple articles on the subject.
What is the author's credentials, or authority?
200
Used to expand a search.
What is OR?
200
The exact, standardized language used by a database to describe articles.
What are subject terms?
200
Using somebody's ideas without using their exact words, and giving them credit for their ideas.
What is paraphrasing?
200
This action requires an activated student ID card, or a local public library card.
What do you need to check out books from the SAU library?
300
Has information supported by evidence, and is verifiable by outside sources.
What is accuracy?
300
These Boolean operators NARROW your search.
What is AND and NOT?
300
The easiest tool to find reliable magazine or journal articles on a topic.
What are online periodical indexes (also known as databases), like EBSCOhost?
300
Using someone else's ideas in your own words, without giving them credit.
What is plagiarism?
300
Journals that are reviewed by experts in the field prior to publication.
What are peer reviewed journals?
400
Is written at an appropriate level for your needs, and contains valuable information for your topic.
What is relevance?
400
Used to exclude information.
What is NOT?
400
Used to see if the SAU library owns a particular book.
What is the online book catalog?
400
Simplifying complicated information, or generating new insights through visualizing information.
What are some of the advantages of using visuals?
400
A reference source where anyone can change the information at any time.
What is Wikipedia?
500
The motivation behind the author's writing.
What is purpose of information?
500
This punctuation searches for an exact phrase.
What are quotation marks?
500
In www.sau.edu, the .edu is this, and in www.cnn.com, the .com is this.
What is the top level domain?
500
Knowing how to find information, evaluate it, and use it effectively.
What is information literacy?
500
The term to describe how search engines invisibly remove information judged non relevant.
What is the "filter bubble"?
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