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=Welcome to Finding and Evaluating Electronic Information!=

Description
Participants will learn basic and advanced searching techniques for databases and the Internet. They also will be introduced to various techniques for evaluating information. Ultimately, they will learn how incorporate these techniques into the classroom to help students become better searchers and evaluators of information.

**__Evidence of need__** When we proposed this course, we had 99 responses on our Junior information literacy survey. Less than 50% of students answered the Boolean search question correctly, and less than 25% of students knew that “having great skill or knowledge on a particular subject” is a measure of authority, which is a key concept in resource evaluation.