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.
When a student must develop a scoped, substantive topic to investigate further and identify context surrounding that topic.
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.
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.
When the student uses their selected sources strategically in their work.
When the student understands how their work fits into the scholarly conversation of their discipline.