RPN to BScN: Savvier Searching
Information Thresholds
- Searching as strategic exploration
- Research as inquiry
- Articulate the capabilities and constraints of information developed through various creation processes
- Monitor the value that is placed upon different types of information products in varying contexts
- Formulate questions for research based on information gaps or on reexamination of existing, possibly conflicting, information
- Determine an appropriate scope of investigation
The goal of this chapter is to provide students opportunities develop and demonstrate skills to:
- design and refine needs and search strategies as necessary, based on search results;
- understand how information systems (i.e., collections of recorded information) are organized in order to access relevant information;
- monitor gathered information and assess for gaps or weaknesses;
- draw reasonable conclusions based on the analysis and interpretation of information.
