Collaborative Information Source Evaluation: Research/Inquiry Circles and the CRAAP Test

Last week, students completed the gentle entry-level phase of pre-search (see the end of this post for more detailed reflections); teacher Sarah Rust and I felt it would be helpful to introduce information and source evaluation skills to our students before moving forward into the next round of pre-searching. We grouped students into collaborative “research” or “inquiry” circles based on their initial topic interests. We plan to use these research circles as a medium for workshopping with sm...