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=Welcome to the RSC Year 8 Personal Investigation Process (PIP) Wiki!=

What is Personal Investigation Process?
//Personal Investigation Process // is a Year 8 English and Humanities Assessment Task designed to actively teach information literacy skills. PIP is designed and taught through collaboration between the English teachers and teacher librarians. It provides a learning experience that is student-centered, process-based and embracing learning flexibility. The central goal of PIP is to assist students to become resilient and proficient researchers.  The unit consists of approximately 10 lessons. Students, with guidance, select and research a topic of personal interest to them. appropriate for the topic and the audience. Students have the opportunity to publish their ideas electronically using a variety of multimedia software such as PowerPoint, Photo Story, Movie Maker, webpage and other formats such as a poster, booklet etc.  information problem solving process.
 * Students will: **
 * 1) **Defining a Task:** Think about what is interesting to you. Talk to your parents, teachers and friends about good topics.If you are passionate about cars, consider focussing on this interest. However we don’t want you simply to find out all you can about cars. The challenging part of this task is that you have to come up with questions relating to your area of interest that will have you really thinking and coming up with a creative response.
 * 2) **Information Seeking Strategies:** Examine alternative approaches to acquiring information. List the best sources to find this information; WorldBook Encyclopaedia Online, Echo, EBSCO, Encarta, Education Channel - FUSE, Internet. Don't forget traditional print - books, reference materials e.g. encyclopaedia and human sources as appropriate.
 * 3) **Location and Access:** Select the key words that you would use when using a search engine on the Internet or the library catalogue. Students will be able to choose the most appropriate sources of information and be able to tell the difference between primary and secondary sources of information.  Using Internet web sites and being able to evaluate these for relevancy, accuracy and authority.
 * 4) **Use of Information:** Effective note-taking requires:
 * recognising the main ideas
 * identifying what information is relevant to your task
 * having a system of note taking that works for you
 * reducing the information to note and diagram format
 * putting the information in your own words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">recording the source of the information - writing a bibliography using citation maker.
 * 5. Synthesis:** Organise from multiple sources. The final product creatively addresses the essential and supporting questions. The presentation format was
 * 6. Evaluation:** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Evaluation focuses on effectiveness or how well the final product matches the original task and efficiency in the
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Is the task complete?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Does my solution answer the original question?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How can I do better?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Did I find authoritative sources?


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