RISD ONLINE RESOURCES

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RISD ONLINE RESOURCES

• Tools for College Readiness

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PREPAREDNESS
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English Language Arts Standards

• Formulate topic and questions.
• Formulate research questions.
• Explore a research topic.
• Refine research topic and devise a timeline for
  completing work.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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English Language Arts Standards

• Formulate topic and questions.
• Formulate research questions.
• Explore a research topic.
• Refine research topic and devise a timeline for
  completing work.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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English Language Arts Standards

• Select information from a variety of sources.
• Gather relevant sources.
• Evaluate the validity and reliability of sources.
• Synthesize and organize information effectively.
• Use source material ethically.
• Produce and design a document.
• Design and present an effective product.
• Use source material ethically.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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English Language Arts Standards

• Select information from a variety of sources.
• Gather relevant sources.
• Evaluate the validity and reliability of sources.
• Synthesize and organize information effectively.
• Use source material ethically.
• Produce and design a document.
• Design and present an effective product.
• Use source material ethically.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Science Standards

• Research skills/information literacy
• Use search engines, databases, and other digital
  electronic tools effectively to locate
  information.
• Evaluate quality, accuracy, completeness,
  reliability, and currency of information from any
  source.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Science Standards

• Research skills/information literacy
• Use search engines, databases, and other digital
  electronic tools effectively to locate
  information.
• Evaluate quality, accuracy, completeness,
  reliability, and currency of information from any
  source.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Critical examination of texts, images, and other
  sources of information
• Identify and analyze the main idea(s) and
  point(s) of view in sources.
• Situate an informational source in its
  appropriate contexts (contemporary, historical,
  cultural).
• Evaluate sources from multiple perspectives.
• Understand the differences between a primary and
  secondary source and use each appropriately to
  conduct research and construct arguments.
• Read narrative texts critically.
• Read research data critically.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Critical examination of texts, images, and other
  sources of information
• Identify and analyze the main idea(s) and
  point(s) of view in sources.
• Situate an informational source in its
  appropriate contexts (contemporary, historical,
  cultural).
• Evaluate sources from multiple perspectives.
• Understand the differences between a primary and
  secondary source and use each appropriately to
  conduct research and construct arguments.
• Read narrative texts critically.
• Read research data critically.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Research and methods
• Use established research methodologies.
• Explain how historians and other social
  scientists develop new and competing views of
  past phenomena.
• Gather, organize, and display the results of data
  and research.
• Identify and collect sources.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Research and methods
• Use established research methodologies.
• Explain how historians and other social
  scientists develop new and competing views of
  past phenomena.
• Gather, organize, and display the results of data
  and research.
• Identify and collect sources.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Reaching conclusions
• Construct a thesis that is supported by evidence.
• Recognize and evaluate counterarguments.
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• Academic integrity
• Attribute ideas and information to source
  materials and authors.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Social Studies Standards

• Reaching conclusions
• Construct a thesis that is supported by evidence.
• Recognize and evaluate counterarguments.
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• Academic integrity
• Attribute ideas and information to source
  materials and authors.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Cross-disciplinary Standards

• Intellectual curiosity
• Engage in scholarly inquiry and dialogue
• Accept constructive criticism and revise personal
  views when valid evidence warrants
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• Reasoning
• Consider arguments and conclusions of self and
  others.
• Construct well-reasoned arguments to explain
  phenomena, validate conjectures, or support
  positions.
• Gather evidence to support arguments, findings,
  or lines of reasoning.
• Support or modify claims based on the results of
  an inquiry.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Cross-disciplinary Standards

• Academic Integrity
• Attribute ideas and information to source
  materials and people.
• Evaluate sources for quality of content,
  validity, credibility, and relevance.
• Include the ideas of others and the complexities
  of the debate, issue, or problem.
• Understand and adhere to ethical codes of
  conduct.
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Cross-disciplinary Standards

• Research across the curriculum
• Understand which topics or questions are to be
  investigated.
• Explore a research topic.
• Refine research topic based on preliminary
  research and devise a timeline for completing
  work.
• Evaluate the validity and reliability of sources.
• Synthesize and organize information effectively.
• Design and present an effective product.
• Integrate source material.
• Present final product.
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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Cross-disciplinary Standards

• Technology
• Use technology to gather information.
• Use technology to organize, manage, and analyze
  information.
• Use technology to communicate and display
  findings in a clear and coherent manner.
• Use technology appropriately.
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
College Career Readiness Standards http//www.t
hecb.state.tx.us/CollegeReadiness/
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ACCESS
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EBSCO Customer MapU.S. Colleges Universities
by StateDecember 2008
EBSCO
EBSCO full text databasesare in every college
university EBSCO full text databasesare in
at least 90 colleges universities EBSCO
full text databases are not yetin the majority
of colleges universities
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EBSCO Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• Alt HealthWatch
• Bibliography of Native North Americans
• Business Source Complete
• Computer Source
• Consumer Health Complete
• EBSCO Animals
• Economia y Negocios
• ERIC
• Fuente Academica
• Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Health Source Consumer Edition
• Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition

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EBSCO

• Information Science Technology Abstracts (ISTA)
• Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
• Kids Search
• Legal Collection
• Library, Information Science Technology
  Abstracts
• MAS Ultra School Edition
• MasterFILE Premier
• MedicLatina
• MEDLINE
• Book Collection Nonfiction
• Middle Search Plus
• Military Government Collection
• Natural Alternative Treatments
• Newspaper Source

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EBSCO

• Primary Search
• Professional Development Collection
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• Regional Business News
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Science Technology Collection
• Searchasaurus
• The Serials Directory
• TOPICsearch
• History Reference Center
• Vocational and Career Collection
• World History Collection
• Literary Reference Center
• Science Reference Center

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EBSCOs Academic Search Complete

• 6,100 full-text periodicals
• indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100
  journals
• 10,600 publications
• content going back as far as 1887

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EBSCO
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EBSCO
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EBSCO
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Gale

• Custom Newspapers
• Informe
• Student Resource Center Health Module
• Student Resource Center Gold
• Opposing Viewpoints (HS only)
• General OneFile
• Student Resource Center Junior
• Texas Almanac
• Science Resource Center (HS only)
• Kids Infobits
• Literature Resource Center (LRC)
• Scribner Writers Series
• Twayne Authors Series

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INSTRUCTION
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Contact Information

• Julie Briggs, Director of Library Media Services
• Robin Gunter, Library Systems Administrator
• http//libraries.risd.org