COPING WITH

YOUR
ASSESSMENT

Type of Assessment
Assessment Methods

Examination

Assignment

Test

Online
Participation

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

Refer to the Materials

Know your course

content

Come up with questions

Identify Important
Topics

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.

TOPIC 7

INFORMATION
GATHERING PROCESS

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 ???

SELF
SATISFACTION

SUPPLEMENT
&
COMPLEMENT

KNOWLEDGE
WHY I NEED
INFORMATION

DISCUSSIONS
EXAMINATION
ASSIGNMENT

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
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M
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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
HP server for database
HP server for I-Portal
Software VIRTUA
Acquisition module
Cataloguing module
Serials module
Circulation module
OPAC (Chameleon)
Report module

User
Education

Knowledge
Databases

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

3)

Print Collection

Course materials (in LMS)

Sample Examination
Question (in portal)

(4,000 books)

1)

Course

2)

Basic Information
Skills
Advanced
Information
Skills Course

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

Search Strategies

To analyze topic;

To Identify information needed;

To find relevant information.

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

RN
TE
IN

AR
KE

TI

ET

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
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m
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m

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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

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MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR
!symbols

#+$

:AND

!symbols

#"$

:NOT