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How Freshmen Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College - take a look at the executive summary about how prepared these students were to do research at the higher ed level. This is extremely timely given our work this year!

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School's Research Webpage

Sample research papers by grade (6-12) from San Diego

Bard College ... Research skills over SAT scores

Interesting article on fraud and plagiarism in scientific research publishing.

Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases-books here, articles there-many libraries now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style. The reality of the roll-out is that it is messy.

Research Basics for High School Students http://researchbasics.jstor.org/ is a Moodle-based course whose goal is to teach research skills to those with a view to higher learning. In their words "This course contains 3 modules. Each module has 3 lessons. Lessons are made up of video lectures followed by practice activities. After completing all 3 lessons in a module, students may take a quiz, get feedback and a score, and earn a badge on completion of the module."

I thought this was very well done as it outlines the process step-by-step.

While this article focuses on citation analysis and its impact in higher education, it discusses specific databases and the problem of keeping up with the boom in online information sources. It also provides a glimpse of the cutting edge of research about research.

Parkdale High School 's library is an integral component to student achievement. By providing literature and technology resources together, the library will continue to offer students and staff members the best opportunity to access information,construct knowledge and develop critical thinking skills. We encourage students to appreciate literature and to become responsible digital citizens.

Remarkable! and FREE!

Another benchmark perhaps - student research to publishing We should be teaching them to hyperlink their ideas to the source.

Joyce Valenza mentions this search engine in her "See Sally Research" TEDx Talk

Attention, educators: training high school students early in digital research, partnering them with a school librarian, and providing time to practice skills can instill a high level of confidence during college. This triple play of digital literacy education was affirmed by preliminary observations of a study underway by EBSCO Information Service s, an online database provider.

"This Tweet shifted my world: If you can Google it, it isn't a good assignment." http://t.co/Rq0A8CytBR by @crossons

Read the short blog post, follow some of the links, and most importantly, try to find 50 minutes to watch the Will Richardson video - from his ISTE presentation. All of this reinforces my belief (our belief) that the library should be at the CENTER of a school's academic purpose. Teachers should be sending students to this place of inquiry, research, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. This belief should drive our library re-design and it's program.