final_small (4K) SJSU History Department - Information Competency
SJSU History Information Competence - Standard Three

  Standard Three


The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.

Specific Competencies

3.1 Determines the authority and source of information for publicly available web sites

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.2 Recognizes the cultural context within which information was created and understands the impact of context on interpreting information

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.3 Analyzes and evaluates historical evidence to provide answers to questions

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.4 Distinguishes fact from belief, opinion, inferences, propositions, and invalid claims

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.5 Selects fundamental ideas from sources and restates concepts in own words

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.6 Recognizes prejudice, deception, manipulation

    introduce—Lower Division/ History 50
    reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.7 Examines and compares information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias

    introduce/reinforce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    culminate— Upper Division/ History 102

3.8 Demonstrates familiarity with a wide range of historical terms and major methods of approaching the study of history, i.e. schools of thought in history

    introduce— Upper Division/ History 100W
    reinforce/culminate— Upper Division/ History 102