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First Year Seminar (FYS) Library Support

A Libguide for FYS Faculty

Aligning Information Literacy SLOs with Your Assignments

You can easily align your already-created research-related tasks with these five SLOs. Students at this level need guidance via highly-structured research tasks. To that end, these are just a few examples of exercises the Liaison Librarians suggest assigning to your students. We are happy to meet with you to discuss the best practice for implementation, or to create a custom assignment for your course.

SLO #1: Identifying an Information Need

When a student must develop a scoped, substantive topic to investigate further and identify context surrounding that topic.

SLO #2: Developing a Search Strategy

When the student has to search for sources using keywords identified from the topic, and incorporating these in search strategies in a variety of tools.

SLO #3: Evaluating information and sources critically

When the student evaluates sources they consider using in their work with respect to currency of publication, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose of the sources.

SLO#4: Using information effectively in their work

When the student uses their selected sources strategically in their work.

SLO #5: Citing sources ethically

When the student understands how their work fits into the scholarly conversation of their discipline.