Denise Dimsdale (Education
Librarian) and Dr. Sarah Carlson (Learning Services, College of
Education and Human Development) discuss how they developed two
classroom activities to help students with choosing a topic for working
on annotated bibliography and literature review assignments.
The first activity involves a unique approach to using the APA Thesaurus
of Psychological Index Terms within the APA PsycINFO database to
identify available topics, and how to narrow down topic searches to
obtain a more doable list of results (e.g., using filters). The
second classroom activity involves using a modified version of the
PICO (Population, Intervention/ Investigation, Comparison, Outcome)
framework to guide students for narrowing down their topics of interest
even further, thinking of how to group their topics of interest into
subtopics. Each will be presented with an example and student feedback.
The session concludes with discussion of how Dimsdale and Carlson plan to teach these sessions in an online format.
"Teaching with Librarians" is a series of conversations highlighting creative faculty/librarian teaching collaborations. Faculty, graduate student
instructors, and library colleagues are invited to attend to learn more
about the planning, processes, obstacles, and successes each team has
experienced, and to participate in a discussion of lessons learned,
techniques developed, and ideas spurred by these presentations.
This session was recorded on March 13, 2020 by CETL staff member Cortney Pizzarelli.
