Choose your own research adventure (RE)SEARCH FOR CORDACAE BY MAGGIE FABER

Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

Problems No way to get data out of Connect No way to track student (dis)engagement No way to represent complexity and flexibility of research process and…

Problems Most of the students apologized at some point for either their research process or how they sorted information, and some of them indicated that they thought they were doing research ‘wrong’. The process seems to be intimidating to them, and one that they want to do correctly but fear doing poorly.

Choose Your own research adventure

Desired outcomes Demonstrate applied Information Literacy skills Build best practices into existing work habits Reinforce student choices/build confidence Get a sense of where students were having questions, problems, & lack of interest in tutorial Quick, fun, non-intrusive

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Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

Reporting Challenges

Reporting Challenges

Design challenges Built in FluidSurveys using Skip Logic to display questions 42 Questions/content nodes 116 Possible responses 59 Branching rules governing skip logic

Analysis Challenges

Analysis Challenges

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Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

First Year Results 279 students reached 53% completion rate Of the abandoned responses, 65% left after the first question 79% positive response 46% requested similar/additional content

Student Instincts The majority of students (57%) turn to Google as their first step in the research process, with 36% turning to library search, and 6% heading to their syllabus. 19% of students move straight from Google to Wikipedia, but students preferred Journal Articles (31%) and Encyclopedias (35%). Only 1 person chose “Google Images”

Student Awareness Only 18% of students were unaware that Google had advanced searching options Students seemed equally comfortable with the concept of different search aids – more so than the general public

Student curiosity 45% of students “knew all that” to an initial overview of Google, which featured basic Boolean operations and phrase searching 75% of that 45% were interested in further tutorial content “to see if there’s something else I don’t know”

Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

Background Challenges Successes Recommendations AGENDA Background Challenges Successes Recommendations

Prioritize key tasks In-depth assessment vs. sustainability Comprehensiveness vs. development demand Collaborative or solo development

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Prioritize key tasks In-depth assessment vs. sustainability Comprehensiveness vs. development demand Collaborative or solo development