Workshop Goals and Objects
• Gain a deeper understanding of the six INtopFORM
Learning Outcomes
• Discuss the relevance of the INtopFORM learning outcomes
to your disciplines
• Explore teaching practices that help students learn each of
the INtopFORM learning outcomes
• Know the tasks to be completed during the first year of
participation in INtopFORM
• Understand the Guidelines for assessing INtopFORM
competencies
• Get to know other faculty in INtopFORM
• Learn about Faculty Learning Communities
Workshop Goals and Objectives – Day One
• Overview of INtopFORM Learning
Outcomes
• Explore current teaching practices
• QUESTIONING
• SEEKING
• 1st Year Blueprint
• INtopFORM Resource Center
INtopFORM Overarching Goal
Help students excel in
seeking, using and
communicating information.
What is information?
Make a list of information
that the object your group
has been given might supply.
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
QUESTIONING
01
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
01
02
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
evaluate, analyze,
scrutinize, inspect,
understand, judge
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
EVALUATING
01
02
03
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
CRAAP test, Cartoon evaluation,
Identify assumptions, Identify bias,
Determine validity and reliability
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
evaluate, analyze,
scrutinize, inspect,
understand, judge
use, synthesize, conclude,
decide, apply, implement,
resolve
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
EVALUATING
USING
01
02
03
04
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
CRAAP test, Cartoon evaluation,
Identify assumptions, Identify bias,
Determine validity and reliability
Prepare a discussion of survey
results, SOAP notes, write a
literature review, write a policy
proposal
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
evaluate, analyze,
scrutinize, inspect,
understand, judge
use, synthesize, conclude,
decide, apply, implement,
resolve
communicate, write,
speak, chart, display,
reveal, publish, exhibit
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
EVALUATING
USING
COMMUNICATING
01
02
03
04
05
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
CRAAP test, Cartoon evaluation,
Identify assumptions, Identify bias,
Determine validity and reliability
Prepare a discussion of survey
results, SOAP notes, write a
literature review, write a policy
proposal
Data displays, papers,
presentations, tables, purpose
and audience worksheets,
required revision
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
evaluate, analyze,
scrutinize, inspect,
understand, judge
use, synthesize, conclude,
decide, apply, implement,
resolve
communicate, write,
speak, chart, display,
reveal, publish, exhibit
recognize, cite, honor,
attribute, respect, credit,
acknowledge
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
EVALUATING
USING
COMMUNICATING
RECOGNIZING
01
02
03
04
05
06
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
CRAAP test, Cartoon evaluation,
Identify assumptions, Identify bias,
Determine validity and reliability
Prepare a discussion of survey
results, SOAP notes, write a
literature review, write a policy
proposal
Data displays, papers,
presentations, tables, purpose
and audience worksheets,
required revision
Plagiarism tutorials, works cited
pages, paraphrasing practice, intext citation exercises
question, postulate,
hypothesize, ask, inquire,
examine, reflect
seek, find, discover,
search, probe, investigate,
explore, pursue
evaluate, analyze,
scrutinize, inspect,
understand, judge
use, synthesize, conclude,
decide, apply, implement,
resolve
communicate, write,
speak, chart, display,
reveal, publish, exhibit
recognize, cite, honor,
attribute, respect, credit,
acknowledge
QUESTIONING
SEEKING
EVALUATING
USING
COMMUNICATING
RECOGNIZING
INtopFORM
01
02
03
04
05
06
Posting Questions to Discussion
Boards, Questioning Processing
Technique, Brainstorming, Writing
Thesis Statements
Paper trail, List of Search Terms,
Credible Sources, Annotated
Bibliographies, Search plan and
timeline
CRAAP test, Cartoon evaluation,
Identify assumptions, Identify bias,
Determine validity and reliability
Prepare a discussion of survey
results, SOAP notes, write a
literature review, write a policy
proposal
Data displays, papers,
presentations, tables, purpose
and audience worksheets,
required revision
Plagiarism tutorials, works cited
pages, paraphrasing practice, intext citation exercises
Marker Sparker
How do hope your students
will be different as a result
of INtopFORM?
First Year Blueprint – Programs of Study
• INtopFORM Summer Workshop
(August 2014)
• Participate in INtopFORM Faculty
Learning Communities (Sept 2014
– May 2015)
First Year Blueprint – Programs of Study
• Submit INtopFORM Assessment
Plan (December 1, 2014)
• INtopFORM Assessment Plans
Approved (February 15, 2015)
First Year Blueprint – Programs of Study
• Submit INtopFORM
Implementation Plan (March 1,
2015)
• INtopFORM Implementation
Plans Approved (May 1, 2015)
First Year Blueprint – Programs of Study
• Collect Baseline Data (Spring
2015)
• Submit Baseline Data (May 25,
2015)
First Year Blueprint – Programs of Study
• Begin Implementing INtopFORM
(2015-16)
First Year Blueprint – Faculty Fellows
• INtopFORM Summer Workshop
(August 2014)
• Participate in INtopFORM Faculty
Learning Communities (Sept 2014
– May 2015)
First Year Blueprint – Faculty Fellows
• Submit Plan for Fellowship
Project (including assessment
plan) (November 1, 2014)
• Fellowship Project Plans
Approved(December 15, 2014)
First Year Blueprint – Faculty Fellows
• Implement Fellowship Project
(Spring 2015 or TBD)
• Submit Fellowship Report (May
25, 2014)
Workshop Goals and Objectives – Day Two
• EVALUATING
• Faculty Learning Communities
• USING
• COMMUNICATING
• RECOGNIZING
• Curriculum Mapping
Workshop Goals and Objectives – Day Three
• INtopFORM Assessment Plan
• Conference Assessment and
Closing
INtopFORM Learning Outcomes
QUESTIONING
Students ask questions that facilitate the solution of
problems and the pursuit of opportunities.
SEEKING
Students identify information sources appropriate to
questions of interest.
EVALUATING
Students apply critical thinking skills in evaluating
information, information sources, and their own search
processes.
USING
Students accumulate, synthesize and/or create information
to address questions of interest.
COMMUNICATING
Students communicate information effectively
RECOGNIZING
Students recognize the responsibilities and consequences
related to information ethics and intellectual property.
First Year Blueprint – Faculty Fellows
• INtopFORM Assessment Plan
• Conference Assessment and
Closing
Workshop Goals and Objectives – Day Three
• INtopFORM Assessment Plan
• Conference Assessment and
Closing