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In this 3-hour highly interactive workshop, faculty will be introduced to collaborative testing as a viable strategy to enhance students' learning, critical thinking in decision-making, and group processing skills.  Participants will explore the benefits and challenges of collaborative testing.  Participants will describe how collaborative testing can be easily implemented and evaluated in their courses.

Thursday, November 25th, 2010
9:00am - 12:00pm
207 Isbister
Donna Martin, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, will share her experience using collaborative testing in two universities. 
Eunice Friesen, the Associate Director of UTS, will provide the current state of knowledge about collaborative testing in postsecondary education. 
 


 
Research assignments are given to post-secondary students to demand inquiry, argument and evidence. Unfortunately the assigned research papers do not always meet the professor's expectations.  Is it because the students lack the intelligence, motivation or work ethic?

The University of Washington Information Literacy report of 28 college campuses (2010) suggests that professors do not adequately provide the written instructions that could facilitate the development of a high level product. Three quarters of students “considered written guidelines, especially which sources to use, as one of the most helpful materials an instructor can provide” (Head & Eisenberg, 2010).

Through the following four workshops, we will explore how we can analyze, revise and evaluate the impact of research assignments designed to enable students to achieve the assignments’ objectives and thereby produce exceptional student research papers.

(Note: These are a linked series of workshops. Registration and attendance is separate for each workshop.)
  

Lena Horne will share her experiences developing information literacy within her students. She will discuss her approach and give specific examples. She will also share her experiences of the results of these approaches with her students.

Wednesday, December 1st
9:30am - 11:00am
207 Isbister
Lena Horne, Associate Professor, Textile Sciences
 



Lena Horne will share her experiences in developing assignments for a multidisciplinary field where the ability to seek and apply information from a variety of credible sources is essential to the quality of the students' work.  Workshop participants will be shown assignments developed for a University 1 course and a fourth-year capstone course.
 
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
2:30 - 4:30 pm
207 Isbister
Lena Horne, Associate Professor, Textile Sciences
 



Informed use of bibliographic management tools like Refworks, Zotero and Mendeley can help to curb plagiarism. They can also be effective platforms for collaborative learning. This workshop will give an overview of several reference management programs, and how they can be incorporated into both student papers and faculty research.
 
Monday, March 7, 2011
1:30 - 3:30pm
207 Isbister
Betty Braaksma, Information Literacy Coordinator, Libraries