Research and Information Skills Portfolio creation 2006.

Research and Research and Information SkillsInformation Skills

Research and Research and Information SkillsInformation Skills

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What is a portfolio?A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that

exhibits the student’s efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas. The collection must include student participation in selecting contents, the criteria for selection, the criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection. A portfolio provides a complex and comprehensive view of student performance in context. It is a portfolio when the student is a participant in, rather than the object of assessment it provides a forum that encourages students to develop the abilities needed to become independent, self-directed learners (Paulson, Paulson and Meyer, in BEDEE1-V tutorial letter 104/0/2006:5)

Why Portfolio Assessment?

Portfolio assessment supports authentic assessment models.

• Main objectives are to keep track of personal progress in the module

• Determine the extent of achievement• Provides an opportunity to value and

assess personal accomplishments• Provides the opportunity to show

lecturers what and how students have learnt

Putting the portfolio together

Requires involvement in following activities:

• Deciding on tasks or goals• Planning the stages of various tasks• Carrying out plans and adjusting

them as necessary • Assessing the success of tasks

Selecting a framework• Chronological – organise portfolio by date• Thematic – organise portfolio around

themes and functions• Problem-oriented – organise porfolio

around problems or issues• Own organising principle – a combination

of any or all of the above ways

Keeping track of the portfolio

• Decide on a collection device for portfolio materials (files, folders, spiral binding, etc)

• Keep practical element of presenting portfolio to university for assessment purposes in mind

• Chosen framework could serve as guideline for organising portfolio.

What items to include• Indicate personal goals and objectives

for portfolio development• Indicate personal goals and objectives

for Research and Information Skills• Indicate proposed plan of action for

achieving these objectives• Include your reactions to our feedback• Include elements of self-reflection.

Reflection• What you believe is important and why• What is characteristic about your learning• What has changed with time• What still remains to be done• How different kinds of experiences have

contributed to your growth and learning• What personal insights you have gained from

the experience• How your opinions and ideas have changed,

refined or not changed

FeedbackPurpose of feedback is to support you.

We will try to be:• Specific so that you will know what we

mean• Sensitive to your goals and will give our

views accordingly• Timely in our feedback• Accurate in our interpretation of your

inputs.

Portfolio activitiesAssignment 01

• Activity 1: Introduce yourself• Activity 2: Decision requiring information• Activity 3: Selecting a research topic• Activity 4: Quantitative and qualitative

research• Activity 5: Reasons for literature search


(continued)• Activity 6: Types of information sources• Activity 7: Evaluation of information

sources• Activity 8: Practical computer skills• Activity 9: Selection of search terms –

one sentence summaries• Activity 10: Identification of types of

records and database structures• Activity 11: Search strategies


Activity 12: Internet activities. These include:

• Setting up an e-mail address• Finding e-mail addresses for lecturers• Finding specific information on the

Internet• Finding information relevant to

research topic


(continued)Activity 13: using online information resources

• Finding specific information using an online library catalogue

• Finding information relevant to research topic• Finding specific information in online

databases• Finding research related information in online

databases


(continued)Find relevant information related to your

research topic:• Explain what you searched for and how you

adapted your search• Indicate how you adapted your searches• Include a variety of sources from the library

catalogue, internet and full-text databases• Provide examples of search strategies• Evaluate your search results according to the

criteria in study unit 2


(Continued)

Compile a bibliography / list of reference sources by:

• By information sources retrieved from the internet, library catalogue and online databases

• Including keywords for each reference

Portfolio activitiesIn-Text activities

• In-text activities are compulsory.• In-text activities appear in Tutorial letter

BEDEE1-V 103/0/2006. • There are 11 activities.

• Each activity is marked with an A• Each activity counts 2 marks.• See marksheets in Tutorial Letter 104/0/2006

(p.36) for a list of the activities.

Exam PortfolioSubmit exam portfolio to

Mrs M du PreezDept of Information ScienceBox 392Unisa0003

Any Questions?Any Questions?Any Questions?Any Questions?

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