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What I would like to see you all do is to create a rubric, an instrument for measuring the relative value of your resources. You might create a table of some size wherein you have a list of all of your resources in the first column and in the first row running across the top of the table, you would list all of the relevant criteria for judging the integrity of a resource (perhaps using the criteria you saw in the evaluation segment of the project). As a group, you must decide which criteria you would use in evaluating each of your resources. Also, you must determine a numerical value for each of these criteria and I would suggest that perhaps you use a range no greater than +3 to -3 but it doesn't have to range that broadly. You could use just 0 to 3, for example. You would have to define what the highest value means and what the lowest value means and all of the intervening values. For example, a 3 would mean that the particular resource being evaluated fulfills the criteria all the time and 0 would mean that it does not fulfill the criteria at all. Consequently, you would, individually, take what your group has designed back to your own resources, fill in your own resources and evaluate them accordingly. You should end up with numbers in the relevant grid and a total at the far right column, showing the varying value of the resources. Obviously, those resources with higher values are going to be the ones you will want to depend on more than those with lower values. My hope with this is that you will create a rubric that you can use in any other course for your research needs, providing you with a means to measure the relative value of your resources, allowing you the opportunity to save time by spending more time with those sources that provide more value for your time. Try to use the sharpest criteria for evaluating your sources, using the criteria in the Evaluation section of this process as a guide. As a group, devise a rubric with criteria by which to evaluate potential resources, to which you can assign a numerical value that signifies the relative worth/value of that resource according to the criteria you have selected; then, individually, use that rubric to evaluate your source. Each student should submit to your instructor or post to WebCT his/her group's rubric, filled in with the evaluation of his/her own resources.
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