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The Big6™ Research Process

Assessment Tools

 

 

 

• Explanation of The Big6 Assessment

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Assessment Tools – Explanation

The use of comprehensive Big6 assessment tools allows student progress to be considered at each step of the Big6 process. By assessing students’ skills with each step of the information problem-solving process or a particular step of focus, teachers will be better able to modify large- and small-group instruction to improve students' use of the process over time.

Following multiple instructional and practice opportunities, the evaluation of students’ use of the Big6 process is also best done with regard for all steps of the process.

In this way, students that might be less skillful presenters, but competent information gatherers and note-takers for example, are evaluated on the total process and not unduly penalized in skill areas still under development. Teachers may weight certain steps more heavily based on their instructional emphases over time. 

• Assessment Tools – Framework for developing a Big6 assessment rubric.

• Assessment Tools – Elementary; develop advance criteria for student project assessment.

• Assessment Tools – Secondary; develop advance criteria for student project assessment.

• KSD Information Problem Solving Holistic Rubric – Secondary; assess student's ability to apply an information problem solving process.

• Power Research Tools: Learning Activities & Posters by Joyce Kasman Valenza – Powerful collection of useful lessons, rubrics, graphic organizers, and curriculum designed to help students become successful users of information. Available in the KSD Staff Development Library.

• Information Literacy Toolkit: Grades Kindergarten-6 by Jenny Ryan and Steph Capra – Organized in three parts – process overviews, planning organizers, and teaching tools – the K-6 guide helps you introduce information literacy concepts and skills and link literacy to standard subject areas. Includes CD-ROM.

• Information Literacy Toolkit: Grades 7 and Up by Jenny Ryan and Steph Capra – Covers more advanced skills in a broader context, applicable less to defined subject areas than to curricula as a whole. Includes CD-ROM.

• Hands-On Information Literacy Activities by Jane Birks and Fiona Hunt – Hands-on interactive activities to develop students' information literacy skills focusing on evaluating, accessing and assessing content of information and its sources. Includes CD-ROM.