Information Literacy Lab

You will be divided into groups and assigned a number that corresponds to a topic.

Based on your group's assigned topic, evaluate the corresponding resources linked in the "Group Resources" box below for use in a research paper.

You will have 15 minutes to evaluate all your group's sources.

Please select one person to write down your group's answers and have them ready to present to the rest of the class. You are encouraged to use the Internet to check facts, verify, learn more, etc., but you will not be able to evaluate all the resources in 10 minutes' time, so don't worry. Do the best you can, this isn't a trap.

Group One: School Choice

• The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina
• American Federation for Children: Research
• How School Choice Became an Explosive Issue
• New Evidence on School Choice and Racially Segregated Schools

Group Two: Obesity

(Content Warning: These resources discuss nutrition, body mass/weight/size, and diet. Please feel free to work in a different group if you would prefer to avoid this content for whatever reason, no explanation needed, and please also feel empowered and supported if you choose to leave the room while we are discussing these resources as a class.)

• Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
• Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
• Body Mass Index, the Most Widely Used But Also Widely Criticized Index. Would a Criterion Standard Measure of Total Body Fat Be a Better Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality? (May also be found through Lesley University Library)