SGO Step 3, Form 1 Set Ambitious and Feasible Student Growth Objectives
Student Growth Objective Form (Simple)
Grade:
Subject
Number of Students
Interval of Instruction
8
G&T
13
Name of Assessment
Research Strategies
Full year
Semester
SGO Type
Rationale for Student Growth Objective
Other _________
General
Specific
(Please include content standards covered and explanation of assessment method.)
Information literacy and the research process meet Common Core Standards across the curriculum in
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing (7,8,9) and Reading Standards for
Informational Text (1,4,7,8.) The assessment reflects students’ knowledge of and ability to effectively
use research skills beyond “Googling” a topic.
Student Growth Objective
At least 70% of the students will increase their score by 50% between October and May of this school
year.
Baseline Data
(Please include what you know about your students’ performance/skills/achievement levels at the beginning of the year, as
well as any additional student data or background information used in setting your objective.)
These students have qualified for the G & T program in the past. No recent assessments have been
made to date. Informal observations of students engaging in research reveal ignorance of more
sophisticated research strategies, which could focus and direct their searches more efficiently. A
formal written pre-assessment (attached) was administered on October 28. The average score was
26% on the pre-assessment.
Scoring Plan
Objective Attainment Level Based on Percent and Number of Students Achieving Target Score
Target
Score
70%
Exceptional (4)
Full (3)
80% or greater
(3 or more students,
20%)
65%-75%
(9 students, 70%)
Partial (2)
Insufficient (1)
Less than 65%
(1 student, 10%)
Approval of Student Growth Objective
Teacher _________________
Signature_______________
Date Submitted_______________
Evaluator ________________
Signature _______________
Date Approved _______________
Results of Student Growth Objective
(State how many students met the final assessment target.)
SGO Step 3, Form 1 Set Ambitious and Feasible Student Growth Objectives
Student Growth Objective Form (Simple)
Score _______
Teacher
Date _______
Evaluator __________________
__________________________
Internet Research Strategies Assessment
1. What term or symbol do you use to be sure all words are present in your search?
2. What term must you use to expand your search?
3. What term or symbol should you use to eliminate words from your search?
4. What is the term for keywords you would use to broaden your search?
5. What technique could you use to narrow your search?
6. What are the 6 terms you should use to evaluate your web source?
a. C
b. A
c. R
d. D
e. S
f. S
7.
What is phrase searching?
8. What do you need to search for a phrase?
9. Why would you use an asterisk in a search? What function does it serve?
10. What are 4 common top level domain names?
a.
b.
c.
d.
11. List 2 more domain names.
a.
b.
12. Define the term “search engine.”
13. Name 3 search engines other than Google.
a.
b.
c.
14. What is a meta-search engine?
15. Name 2 meta-search engines.
a.
b.
16. Name a news search engine.
17. Name 2 image search engines.
a.
b.
18. What is the main difference between a search engine and a subject directory?
19. Why would you use a subject directory?
20. How can you find the “invisible web?”
Internet Research Strategies Assessment
1. What term or symbol do you use to be sure all words are present in your search?
AND or +
2. What term must you use to expand your search?
OR
3. What term or symbol should you use to eliminate words from your search?
NOT or 4. What is the term for keywords you would use to broaden your search?
synonyms
5. What technique could you use to narrow your search?
Be more specific
6. What are the 6 terms you should use to evaluate your web source?
a. C
credibility
b. A
accuracy
c. R
reliability
d. R
relevance
e. D
date
f. S
sources
g. S
scope
7.
What is phrase searching?
More than one word in a specific order
8. What do you need to search for a phrase?
Quotation marks
9. Why would you use an asterisk in a search? What function does it serve?
Use an asterisk to include various forms of a word. Functions as a wild card.
Ex: teen* finds teen, teens, teenager, and teenagers.
10. What are 4 common top level domain names?
a. .com
b. .edu
c. .gov
d. .net
11. List 2 more domain names.
a. .org
.mil
b. .int
12. Define the term “search engine.”
Search engines are large databases of web documents that rely on robots, spiders or crawlers,
automated programs that match words and phrases to web documents, ignoring certain
common “stop words” like “the,” “of,” “a,” and “an.”
13. Name 3 search engines other than Google.
a. bing.com
b. ask.com
c. yahoo.com
hotbot.com
14. What is a meta-search engine?
Meta-search engines have no databases of their own. They search across the databases of a
variety of other search tools.
15. Name 2 meta-search engines.
a.
dogpile.com
b.
ixquick.com
vivisimo.com
profusion.com
16. Name a news search engine.
News.yahoo.com
cnn.com
rocketnews.com
17. Name 2 image search engines.
a.
images.google.com
b.
gallery.yahoo.com
18. What is the main difference between a search engine and a subject directory?
Subject directories are catalogs of websites collected, organized and maintained by human, not
robots or spiders. They offer fewer sites of higher quality.
19. Why would you use a subject directory?
If you have a very broad topic, and need to narrow it. If you are just starting a search. When
you want to get quickly to the best sites on a topic. When you want to avoid “noise”
documents.
20. How can you find the “invisible web?”
Use a standard search tool and enter your search terms and the term “database”
invisible-web.net
invisibleweb.com
geniusfind.com
completeplanet.com