Windsor 6 Library Skills Assessment

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Windsor 6 was doing their Library Skills Assessment (LSA) January 8-12, 2007. The LSA asks each student to demonstrate their skills at finding, evaluating and citing information using the following sources:

• library catalog,
• index in an informational book,
• print encyclopedia,
• online encyclopedia,
• search engine,
• and an informational web page.

Each student demonstrates using each of the resources and is rated on a scale of 1-4 by a teacher - Ms McDaniel, Mr. O’Donnell or Ms Flynn.

What a great group Windsor 6 has been to work with! They have come to the library every day excited and ready to work. They asked some very thoughtful questions and made some very astute observations, e.g. “The information on this webpage is pretty old [1999].” and “How do we know the author [of this web page] didn’t write his own biography and exaggerate?”

More than two dozen W6 students successfully completed their LSA, being rated at level 4 - “independently able to access, evaluate and cite information using this source” - which is quite an accomplishment for sixth graders! Congraulations Windsor 6; you should be very proud of yourselves!

Ms McDaniel, Mr O’D and Ms Flynn

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