This is a series of short PowerPoints to highlight each of the steps of The Big6 research process. These are used in an introduction to college research skills class -- but are general enough to be used at any level where you are introducing students to general research.

Each PowerPoint comes with narration and the slides have the narrating script in the notes.

This 2-credit course provides an introduction to research by learning to identify, find, evaluate, incorporate, and cite appropriate sources using a range of research tools. This course is designed for an online class environment and was taught as such in Spring 2020. The course materials have been collaboratively developed by Tacoma Community College librarians, and uses a combination of openly licensed, open access, and library resources.

 This resource will provide college students with the skills necessary to find academic articles in support of a research writing assignment.This resource is written for a college level reader. The exercises are intended to be accomplished by using your college or university library website and the research resources on it.  While this resource can be accomplished independently, it has been written to serve as instruction within a research methods course and assumes that students have an actual research project to which they can apply these strategies.

 Section 1: Readings of Daniel Palidino’s reflection and 2 sources on metacognition. Directions for journal 1.  Section 2: Directions for journal 2 (OER project ideas).  Section 3: Sources used

 Section 1: Readings of Daniel Palidino’s reflection and 2 sources on metacognition. Directions for journal 1. Section 2: Video "The Process of Learning" with directions for journal 2 Section 3: Directions for journal 3 (OER project ideas).  Section 4: Sources used

This presentation provides a short and simplified overview of the different stages of the qualitative research process. In continuation of this we will talk about planning, consultation, consideration of many practical as well as scientific and ethics matters. For further information regarding the planning stages of qualitative research, please look at the video: The Work Process and Procedures of a Qualitative Research Project - part 1

Experienced researchers “get” inquiry - that is, they have an ongoing internalized self-talk process that evaluates, draws connections, and creates next steps for the information-gathering process. But, they may not know that or how they do it.Along with the steps of inquiry, we need to help learners understand the metacognitive "self-talk" that guides their decisions which drive the inquiry. What researchers think is more important than what they do. So how can we help researchers recognize and utilize their metacognitive processes that guide their research? In order to prepare information-age learners, librarians need tools to teach the thinking that lies behind the inquiry.In this module, librarian candidates will learn to make the internalized reflective process overt. Candidates will create metacognitive awareness of the reflection process that accompanies inquiry. They will demonstrate understanding by creating concrete reflection scaffolding tool for emerging researchers.The skills and understandings gained from this module will help school librarians build instruction in support of CCSS.ELA-Literacy. CCRA.R.7, 9, 10.

This is a 2-page "quick guide" handout about evaluating sources and a basic framework that students can use to evaluate their topics and analyze how well their sources support those topics.

This is a 1-page "quick guide" handout about how to start a search for a research inquiry or assignment. The handout includes brief tips for getting an overview of your topic, how to see all resources at the TCC Library on a topic, how to find the right article databases, and how to find viewpoints or a newspaper editorial.

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