Are Students Ready for College Research? Teresa Diaz Benjamin Harris Eisenhower Middle School Trinity University Region 20 Round Up September 21, 2012.

Are Students Ready for College Research?

Teresa Diaz Benjamin Harris Eisenhower Middle School Trinity University

Region 20 Round Up September 21, 2012

Are they college-ready?

What do we know about entering college students?

students technology

students create

students are confident

students are very very confident

students manage time

students are digital natives

73% “info from search engines is trustworthy”

66% “info from search engines is fair and unbiased”

41% “unsure if info from search engines is correct”

students are digital natives

students are assessment natives

What do we know about the expectations of college faculty?

enhancing student learning

#1: addressing the gaps

“left it up to the students”

“underwhelmed by the final products”

“less credible sources are chosen”

#2: prepare for future courses

“a process guided by questions”

“evaluating individual works”

“using sources properly”

#3: learn content-area-specific research habits

“understanding the ancient world”

“becoming themselves interpreters”

“integrate findings”

“construct a more coherent understanding”

#4: prepare for lifelong learning

“evaluate the validity of information in other areas

of their lives”

“design a system to meet desired needs”

What do we know about teachers’ approaches to course design?

collaborations

practices

trends

What do we know about the impact on student learning?

“students genuinely interested”

“topics this semester were creative”

“not sure they understand ‘why’”

“more developed sense of which sources were best”

“not as consistently skillful at piecing together a coherent analysis”

moving forward

Alignment Brainstorming

1. pick a challenge

2. align outcomes for research skills development w/course/content goals

3. invent an activity or assignment

libguides.trinity.edu/roundup

find our presentation and slides

find handouts

leave comments/questions

moving outward

?