Read "Leveraging Assessment for Learning," this issue's "Homepage" column by Editor Debbie Abilock
The author of "Critical Thinking 101" shares her handouts, which you can reproduce for use in your school library media center:
- Problem Markers
- Strategies for Specific Information Use Phases
- Information Evaluation Decision Guide
- Evaluative Strategies for K-12 Students
Read the feature article "Critical Thinking 101: The Basics of Evaluating Information," about strategies that students can use to evaluate information and ways to infuse this critical thinking into the curriculum, beginning on page 13 of the print issue.
A school library media specialist and an English teacher reflect on their collaboration on a yearly political assassinations project. View the PowerPoint® presentation on evaluating sources used with their students, as well as the Webliography of assassinations compiled during the project and the student survey.
Read their reflections, "Reprise...When We Do This Next Year...," beginning on page 42 of the print issue. You can also read the team's original column about this project in the September/October 1998 issue of Knowledge Quest.
Read "Waiting for No One!," this issue's "Net Worth" column, and explore sites about evaluating Web resources.
View the table of contents for the print issue.
