COPING WITH

YOUR

ASSESSMENT

Type of Assessment

Assessment Methods

AssignmentOnline

ParticipationTestExamination

PREPARING FOR ASSESSMENT

! Gather Notes

! Revise and Memorise

! Practice Answering Question

! Plan and Schedule

Gather Notes

! Reduce your lecture notes or text book materials to short comprehensive notes.

! Your note should able to give a complete picture of the topic.

! Organise your notes and materials in the right order.

! Set your note systematically.

Gather Notes

! Reduce your lecture notes or text book materials to short comprehensive notes.

! Your note should able to give a complete picture of the topic.

! Organise your notes and materials in the right order.

! Set your note systematically.

Revise and Memories

What is revision

is an active participation of brain.

to checking students understanding of the topic, making links between di!erent topics.

not complete without memorising the important elements and details.

How to revise and memorise

Understand the topic

Know your course content

Identify Important Topics

Refer to the Materials

Come up with questions

Relate the topics to ideas

Study in a group

How to improve memorisation skills

Understand the material

memorise through association with your own life experiences

vivid assosiation

visual memory

Talk it out, and aloud if possible

Basic Preparation for Examinations

Sleep well

Be punctual

know what to bring or not to bring

Bring along all needed stationary

TYPE OF ASSESSMENT QUESTION

! Objective Type Question

! True"false

! Multiple Choice, and

! Filling in the blank

! Subjective Type Question

! Essay type question. Have to well read and well prepared to answer these type of question.

tips on answering subjective type question

Read the instructions

Seek clarification

Divide your time wisely

understand the question

follow the format

provide the outline and jot down main issues

neat handwriting

one paragraph for each point

Do not answer additional question

proofread your answer

DOING THE ASSIGNMENT

! Avoid plagiarism

! Improve your assignment

DOING THE QUIZZES

! To test your understanding in a particular unit of study.

PATRICIPATION IN ONLINE DISCUSSION

! Have access to MyLMS

! Be familiar with MyLMS

! Post good question for discussion

! Participate in online discussions regularly.

ETHICS

“The philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it.”

Ethics

! Is about moral decision, which is based on a standard of conduct that indicated how one should behave based on moral duties and values.

! In the examination, ethics is about a set of values and standards that guides your actions, thoughts or words before or during the examination.

INFORMATION GATHERING PROCESS

TOPIC 7

Objectives

! Identify six #6$ reasons why you need information

! Describe the concepts and three #3$ components of TSDAS Digital Library

! Explain the five #50 steps in the Information gathers process as shown in the information trail.

INFORMATION ???

WHY I NEED

INFORMATION

SUPPLEMENT

&

COMPLEMENT

DISCUSSIONS

ASSIGNMENT

EXAMINATION

KNOWLEDGE

SELF

SATISFACTION

TO BE A SUCCESSFUL LEARNER

! DOES NOT MEAN JUST PERFORMING WILL ACADEMICALLY BUT BE INFORMED, CREATIVE, ORIGINAL AND INNOVATIVE IN YOUR THINKING

WHERE TO GET INFORMATION ???

! Lectures

! Tutorials

! Books

! Newspapers

! Speeches

! Radio

! Tv

! Internet

OUM STUDENTS

INFORMATIO N

TSDAS DIGITAL LIBRARY

OUM DIGITAL LIBRARY???

1. Information Retrieval Skills• Locating and retrieving relevant information • Evaluating and selecting information

2. ICT Skills for Information retrieval• OPAC (electronic catalog)• Electronic databases ( e-books + e-journal)• Internet Websites

COMPONENTS OF A DIGITAL LIBRARY

1. Technical infrastructure # hardware & software$

2. Knowledge databases #commercial & in house databases$

3. User education

OUM DIGITAL LIBRARY

Technical Infrastructure

KnowledgeDatabases

User Education

•HP server for database•HP server for I-Portal

•Software – VIRTUA•Acquisition module•Cataloguing module•Serials module•Circulation module OPAC (Chameleon)•Report module

1) Commercial Databases• E-books (24x7, ebrary)

• E-journals (EBSCOhost,

xreferplus)

• Emerald, Eiv2, Proquest

• Education, SpringerLink,

• IoP Electronick Journa

• The ACM Digital Library,

• INFORTRAC Expanded,

• Academic ASAP, NSTP

(e-media)

2) In-house Databases• Course materials (in LMS)

• Sample Examination

• Question (in portal)

3) Print Collection

(4,000 books)

1) Course• Basic Information

Skills

• Advanced

Information

• Skills Course

2) Outcomes • Information

Retrieval Skills

ICT Skills

THE OUM INFORMATION TRAIL

! Identify and analyses the topic.

! Identify the information resources and sources relevant to the topic.

! Applying appropriate strategies to get maximum results.

! Evaluate and select the information relevant to the topic.

! Present the relevant information as required by the topic in a written or oral format.

Identify and analyses the topic

! What the issues and sub issues are;

! Identify the main topic and sub topics.

Recognizing information

! Resource #Printed/digital format$

! Printed / digital format

! Books

! Journal articles

! Chapters in a book

! Conferences papers

! To analyze topic;

! To Identify information needed;

! To find relevant information.

Search Strategies

BOOLEAN CONNECTORS

" Help to narrow down or broaden your search

" To give more accurate search by combining keywords, phrases or terms

" Use AND, OR AND NOT to combine with search terms for better results

Boolean Connector

! To combine more than one keyword

MARKET

ING

INTE

RNET

Contain Information on both marketing “AND” internet

The information retrieved in these areas will

be only on one topic

Boolean Connector

“OR”! To search within the same concept with di!erent

words.

! When the search result is too little

! To find additional article/books

! To connect the synonyms of the keywords

! To broaden your search and increase the amount of information

Boolean Connector “OR”

e-business

e-com

merc

e

Information on both term to increase the result obtained

Boolean Connector “NOT”

! To include certain aspect from the search result, that is when particular keyword is not required

marketing

reta

iling

MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR

!symbols #+$ :“AND”

!symbols #"$ :“NOT”