STIMar17

=Agenda for Today - March 17, 2008=

1. **Update** on where groups are for your Action Research Project ([|post a quick summary on our class blog])
 * Questions of Interest
 * Ideas for collecting data
 * Observations/Findings/Reflections thus far

2. **Reflections** from last month's readings and the [|recent blog postings]

3. **Thinking about Aspects of Critical Evaluation** (handouts include Recent Findings: [|STI Mar2008 CritEval.pdf] and Instructional Ideas: [|STI CritEvalPart2.pdf])
 * **Relevancy** - information's level of importance to a particular reading purpose or stated information need
 * **Accuracy** - the extent to which information contains factual and updated details that can be verified by consulting alternative and/or primary sources
 * **Reliability** - the information's level of trustworthiness based on information about the author and the publishing body (//most// and //least// reliable)
 * **Commercial Bias** - the extent to which information appears to be influenced by commercial interests for or against a certain product
 * **Bias/Perspective** - the extent to which information appears to be influenced by a particular set of interests or point of view