WI+RE Learning Outcomes

A list of learning outcomes for all of WI+RE's tutorials, workshops, handouts, and more

WI+RE's Open Educational Resources

Browse WI+RE's Open Educational Resources by their learning outcomes, connections to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, or by relationship to UCLA's Core Competencies for Research and Information Literacy.

For an accessibility overview of WI+RE's resources, see the WI+RE Accessibility Report.

Learning outcomes define what we hope learners will be able to do after actively engaging with our learning materials.

Tutorials

Title Learning Outcomes Tags
3 Ways to Find Research Opportunities
  • Identify three strategies for finding research opportunities.

["Faculty-initiated project""Student-initiated project""Research Questions""Entering Research"]
6 Tips for Finding Remote Research at UCLA
See also: 6 Tips for Finding Remote Research at UCLA (PDF Handout)
  • List six tips for finding remote research opportunities at UCLA

["research""remote""quantitative research""qualitative research"]
A Beginner's Guide to Notion
  • Develop the confidence to create a personalized Notion page with different subpages to help better organize between personal life, classes, work, and research.
  • Apply the Notion’s scheduling software, such as Google Calendar, to help with time management.
  • Recognize effective note taking strategies and explore how to organize notes onto the Notion platform.
  • Identify how to use the digital platforms and different sites connected with Notion to help create a personal touch to your page.

["notion""notetaking""organization"]
Annotated Bibliographies
  • Identify components of an annotated bibliography
  • List reasons for making an annotated bibliography
  • Define four types of annotations

["bibliographies""research""writing strategies""bibliography"]
Appreciating the Value of Different Resource Types
  • Differentiate scholarly sources from popular sources and primary sources from secondary sources.
  • Describe the value of different types of popular, scholarly, primary, and secondary sources.
  • Identify and categorize your research materials, according to the categories and types of information covered.

["resources""research""citing""sources""secondary""scholarly""popular""Finding and Citing Sources"]
Brainstorm Your Research Interests
  • List at least 3 ways to brainstorm their research interests
  • Brainstorm at least 3 research interests

["Entering Research"]
Breaking Down Academic Articles
  • Identify key aspects of an academic article
  • Support future research endeavors
  • Prepare to discuss articles in class

["academic articles""abstracts""reading strategies""articles""article database"]
Breaking Down Your Prompt
See also: Breaking Down Your Prompt (PDF Handout)
  • Break down a prompt into the main tasks and requirements
  • List resources and readings that will be helpful for answering the prompt
  • Brainstorm ideas for the answering the prompt

["prompt""requirements""brainstorm""decipher""deciphering""strategies"]
Building a CV, Resume, and Cover Letter
  • The fundamentals of a resume
  • Components of a resume
  • Specific sets of skills to highlight in your resume
  • Fundamentals and differences between a resume and CV
  • Which scenarios fit better for creating a CV
  • You will learn how to write a cover letter
  • There will be information to prepare you and get you started with your document

["resume""cv""cover letter""job""hiring""create""document""application""skills""internship""qualifications""requirements""process""personal statement""description""leadership""training""student sucess"]
CREATES
  • critically read and analyze scientific literature
  • create a concept map based on a scientific article
  • sketch the methods and annotate the figures of a scientific article
  • analyze and interpret scientific data
  • predict subsequent experiments and research questions following a scientific article

["C.R.E.A.T.E.S.""reading strategies""scientific articles""scientific literature""critical analysis""critical synthesis""stem""science"]
Calculating Species Diversity
  • Define the different types of biodiversity
  • Calculate the alpha, beta, and gamma diversity of a model ecosystem
  • Assess how human interactions can affect ecosystem biodiversity

["biodiversity""ecology""conservation""STEM"]
Contacting Instructors: Email and In-Person
  • Send effective emails to instructors and faculty.
  • Include a clear subject, appropriate greeting, concise information, and a professional signature in instructor and faculty emails.
  • Prepare for and make the most of office hours and meetings with instructors and faculty.

["Contacting Instructors""Email""Office Hours""Communication""academic etiquette""academic writing""writing"]
Creating Literature Reviews
  • Summarize literature reviews and their function in research
  • Organize essential resources and data for literature review
  • Choose literature review type according to research needs
  • Locate information gaps for literature review to address

["writing a literature review""writing""reading""write a literature review""lit review"]
Critically Evaluating Resources
  • Define positionality in relation to the research process.
  • Discuss the role your positionalities play when doing academic research.
  • Practice quickly identifying the reliability and validity of a given source given its type, methodology, publication, date, accuracy of sources cited, and other factors.
  • Identify the usefulness of the sources you will use both by checking for their credibility and how the author’s findings or claims relate to your own ideas.

["resources""research""citing""sources""positionality""evaluating,""misinformation""lateral reading""SIFT""Finding and Citing Sources"]
DNA Replication Mechanism
  • List replisome components that act before, during, and after DNA replication.
  • Identify the major modules of DNA polymerase III and their roles in replication

["DNA""replication""biology""STEM"]
Data in the Humanities Coming soon!

["Data literacy""Data research""datasets"]
Deconstructing the Elevator Speech
See also: Deconstructing the Elevator Speech (PDF Handout)
  • Describe the elements of an effective elevator speech
  • Sketch an elevator speech
  • Distinguish elevator speech from research abstract

["elevator speech""elevator pitch""presentation skills""academic conference"]
Electron Configurations
  • Articulate what orbitals are and what they mean
  • Construct an electron configuration for an element

["chemistry""orbitals""electron configurations"]
Expanding Perspectives in Your Search
  • Identify sources outside of starting perspective
  • Develop refined research questions
  • Prioritize what resources to include in assignment

["expanding perspectives""search bias""diverse perspectives"]
Find and Use Review Articles
  • Summarize a review article and its purpose
  • Find review articles in various databases
  • Identify signifcant filter terms for searching review articles
  • Distinguish a review article from a primary research article

["review articles""search""find articles""finding articles""literature review""article database""stem""science"]
Find the Right Research Guides
  • Find library research guides
  • Choose the best databases for your topic

["research guides""articles""books""finding articles""finding books""article database"]
Finding Images with the UCLA Library
  • Use the UCLA Library website to find and cite image resources
  • Explain the difference between copyright and creative commons licensing

["citation""citing images""images""copyright""art research"]
Finding Scholarly Articles
  • Navigate search filters
  • Construct effective searches
  • Locate full texts of articles

["find articles""finding articles""article search""searching the literature""articles""article database"]
Finding and Using Keywords in Context
  • Understand that terminology and scholarly language is contextual, temporal, and fluid
  • Identify alternate terms for a term in dated literature
  • Identify when a term is introduced in the literature
  • Understand that language is formed by the era in which its produced and can serve as a form of oppression - naming is power

["keywords""history""searching""search strategies""articles"]
Genetic Drift: Founder Effect vs. Bottleneck
  • Differentiate between the two modes of Genetic Drift
  • Identify how Bottleneck and Founder Effect impact populations
  • Recognize how a population has speciated given a description

["Life Science""Life Sciences""Life Science 7B""Life Sciences 7B""genetics""allele""alleles""genetic drift""founder effect""bottleneck""STEM"]
Get Started with Zotero
  • Create Zotero Account
  • Organize your Library
  • Generate a bibliography in a chosen citation style (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)

["zotero""citation management software""bibliography""annotated bibliography""citation manager""citation style"]
Getting Started with Research at UCLA
  • Brainstorm research projects
  • Articulate the benefits of research
  • Identify undergraduate research opportunities and resources at UCLA

["Getting started with research""getting started""research at UCLA""get started""undergraduate research"]
Graduate School 101
  • Part 1 Deciding Whether or Not to Go - Differentiate between different types of graduate and professional programs - Compare the various reasons why people choose to go to grad school and possible paths (straight through vs. gap) - List questions to ask yourself when deciding if grad school is the right path for you
  • Part 2 Preparing during Undergrad - Conducting informational interviews - Office hours & networking with professors - Constructing a long term prep plan that works for you
  • Part 3 Assembling Application Materials - Deciding where to apply - Putting together your application package - List strategies for navigating imposter syndrome & self doubt

["applications""career paths""navigation""research""graduate school"]
How to Navigate Retaking a Course
  • Recognize you're not alone and this happens more often than you think
  • Recognize that self-worth is separate from academic success
  • Determine whether they have a fixed or growth mindset
  • Identify strategies for succeeding in the course the second time and improve their understanding of the material

["retaking a course""failing a course""retake""retaking""failing""fail""not passing""academic advising""academics""grades""grade""mental health""emotional health""student success"]
How to Write a Thesis Statement
  • identify the requisite steps to writing a thesis statement
  • recognize examples of effective and ineffective thesis statements
  • identify the components of a well structured thesis statement
  • recognize that the thesis writing process is flexible, nonlinear, and susceptible to change

["thesis statement""essay""writing"]
Integrating Citations
See also: Integrating Citations (PDF Handout)
  • Summarize citation structures for sources in research
  • Recognize the purpose of each listed citation strategy
  • Locate appropriate spaces for citation structures and strategies in research

["cite""plagiarism""bibliography""writing"]
Intro to Data Literacy
  • Explain how the definition of data is shaped by multiple factors within the data research process.
  • Describe examples of data research across various disciplines.

["Data literacy""Data research""datasets"]
Navigating UC Library Search
  • Articulate the resources and locations that the UC Library Search is capable of searching
  • Identify the location of the UC Library Search bar
  • Differentiate between the UC Library Search search scopes
  • Identify the location of the search filters
  • Identify the locations of Holding information, Interlibrary Loan, Permalink, Create Citation, and Subject Headings in the catalog record
  • Identify the location of the 24/7 Ask a Librarian widget

["UC Search""catalog""research"]
Overcoming Writer's Block
See also: Overcoming Writer's Block (PDF Handout)
  • Identify writer's block and explain the different ways one might experience it
  • Discuss various strategies for overcoming writer's block
  • Assess your own writing situation and employ the most relevant strategy/solution

["writer's block""writing""academic paper""essay""creativity""research"]
Passive and Active Voice
  • Identify differences between passive and active sentences
  • List reasons to use passive voice
  • Use passive and active voice to emphasize the doer or receiver

["write""academic writing""passive voice""active voice""doer""receiver""writing strategies"]
Positionality & Research
  • Explain what positionality refers to in the research process
  • Discuss the role your positionality plays when doing academic research
  • Begin to identify what biases and insights come with the social identities you embody
  • Develop strategies to remain mindful of your positionality during the research process

["equity in research""identities""critical inquiry""positionality""expanding perspectives""search bias""diverse perspectives"]
Primary Source Analysis
  • List 5 examples of questions to ask when analyzing primary sources
  • Identify the 5 basic steps of primary source analysis
  • Articulate how primary source content relates to research question in academic language

["documents""primary source""history research""archive""primary sources"]
Primary and Secondary Sources
See also: Primary and Secondary Sources (PDF Handout)
  • Identify a source as primary or secondary given a specific research topic or discipline.
  • Identify a source that one research topic would treat as primary, and another research topic would treat as secondary.
  • Generate ideas for types of primary sources that may be relevant to their research area.

["primary""secondary""sources""source""primary and secondary sources""primary vs secondary sources""wheel of sources""primary sources""secondary sources""sciences""humanities""discipline""research""writing"]
Reading Pedigrees
  • Differentiate between recessive and dominant genotypes
  • Recognize how heterozygous traits are shown on a pedigree
  • Identify the different genotype possibilities and/or modes of inheritance given an individual's parents/offspring

["pedigree""pedigrees""biology""Life Science""Life Sciences""Life Science 7B""Life Sciences 7B""genetics""genes""autosomal""x-linked""dominant""recessive""allele""alleles"]
Reading Strategies Playlist
  • Identify various reading strategies (e.g. paraphrase as you read, make an annotation legend, prioritize new vocabulary, etc.)
  • Select personal reading strategies based on your experiences, preferences, and needs.

[]
Remote Access - Get configured with VPN or Proxy
  • Identify the benefits of setting up the VPN or Proxy Server
  • Download VPN at UCLA
  • Set-up Proxy Server at UCLA

["vpn""off-campus access""proxy""article database"]
Remote Study Strategies: The Pomodoro Technique
  • Confidently complete work using the Pomodoro Technique
  • Develop a personalized study plan that works for you
  • Assess if the Pomodoro technique is right for you
  • Adapt the Pomodoro Technique for your specific needs

["productivity""study strategies""remote learning"]
Research Abstracts
  • Explain what a research abstract is
  • Recognize differences between effective and ineffective research abstracts
  • Design an effective abstract

["research abstract""presentation abstract""writing an abstract""academic conference"]
Research Paper Planner
See also: Research Paper Planner (PDF Handout)
  • Break down assignments into manageable deadlines
  • Track progress on assignments
  • Identify campus resources

["planning""time management""strategy""strategies"]
Research and Academics Glossary Coming soon!

[]
Search Experimentally
  • Use a variety of keywords to search for sources
  • Broaden and narrow search results (using tools such as Boolean Operators, etc.)
  • Refine your search using database filtering tools

["search"]
Setting Academic Goals
  • List the parts of a SMART goal
  • Identify at least three personal long-term academic SMART goals
  • Recognize the benefit of breaking down large goals into manageable tasks

["Entering Research"]
Start with your Questions
  • Develop a general topic or idea into a set of exploratory research questions
  • Narrow (and broaden) research questions using a variety of strategies (e.g., geographic area, cultural aspects, groups of people, time spans, or other strategies)

["topic mapping""research questions""brainstorming""mindmapping""mind mapping""mind-mapping"]
Strategies for Taking a Timed Exam
  • Develop a plan for taking real-life and virtual timed tests
  • Identify strategies for answering multiple-choice and free response questions

["exam""test""test-taking""quiz""examination""question""assessment""questions""CCLE""Gradescope""Respondus""short answer""essay""writing""discipline"]
Turn Questions into Keywords
  • Identify core concepts in research questions
  • List core concepts as keywords
  • Construct alternative ways to express keywords
  • Organize keywords into advance search fields

["keywords""search strategies""research strategy""brainstorming"]
Understanding Misinformation: A Lesson Plan Toolkit
  • Identify the causes of misinformation
  • Define information, misinformation, and disinformation
  • Identify strategies for recognizing misinformation

["misinformation""disinformation""Critical-thinking""systemic"]
Using Google Scholar
  • Adopt new strategies for improving a Google Scholar search
  • Use Google Scholar's Advanced Search
  • Use quotes in their search
  • Use AND, OR, NOT, and Parentheses in their search.
  • Use Cited By and Related Articles to find relevant articles
  • Access relevant articles

["searching""finding articles""finding sources""google scholar search""articles"]
Using Pubmed - Intro to the Advanced Search Builder
  • Find articles on a topic or by subject in PubMed
  • Access full text versions of articles through PubMed
  • View your PubMed search history, including key words
  • Use PubMed search filters to get the best results

["PubMed""Advanced Search Builder""New PubMed user interface""Search Strategies""finding articles""find articles""article search""article database""stem""science"]
Using Simpson's Diversity Index
  • Articulate the meaning behind the Simpson’s diversity equation
  • Calculate a Simpson’s index
  • Articulate how population dynamics can shift the Index value

["biodiversity""ecology""population dynamics"]
Using the UCLA Digital Library
  • Understand how to access and find resources on the Digital Library website

["keywords""search strategies""research strategy""digital library"]
WI+RE's Guide to Networking
  • Articulate the benefits of networking
  • Identify effective strategies for networking in multiple contexts
  • Identify strategies for maintaining connections with your network

["networking""goals""goal""network""social media"]
WI+RE's Guide to Note-taking
  • Identify strategies to take notes effectively
  • Understand how various methods of taking notes work best in specific situations
  • Recognize common pitfalls of note-taking
  • Expand toolkit of helpful abbreviations and shorthand to make taking notes efficient

["take notes""note-taking""studying""learning""notes""study habits"]
WI+RE's Introduction to AI Chatbots
  • Define what generative AI is and how it can be used as a tool.
  • Describe (generally) how generative AI models are trained and programmed.
  • Recognize the limitations of using generative AI tools in an academic setting.
  • Identify potential productive methods of collaborating with Generative AI in an academic setting.

["tag 1""tag 2"]
WIRE's Guide to Contacting Faculty: Cold Emailing
  • Articulate the publications and research conducted in the labs you are interested in working in with your own words.
  • Craft a successful email that will make you stand out from the other individuals that send out emails to the same faculty member.

["emailing""cold emailing""research"]
What is Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium?
  • Recall the five assumptions of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  • Examine whether or not a population has undergone evolution
  • Determine allele frequencies in a population given phenotypic or genotypic data
  • Calculate genotype frequencies given the allele frequencies and vice versa

["Life Science""Life Sciences""Life Science 7B""Life Sciences 7B""genetics""allele""alleles""Hardy-Weinberg""Hardy""Weinberg""Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium""Equilibrium""evolution""genotype""phenotype""gene flow""random mating""mututations""migration""natural selection""frequency""allele frequency""genotype frequency""STEM"]
Writing Conclusion Paragraphs
  • Describe the general structure of a conclusion paragraph.
  • Describe the amount of detail that should go into the restatement of the thesis.

["write""writing strategies""conclusion paragraph""concluding paragraph""writing tips"]
Writing Topic Sentences
  • Articulate two ways to come up with topic sentences (before or after writing a body paragraph)
  • Articulate qualities of a successful topic sentences

["write""writing strategies""academic writing""topic sentences""writing tips"]
Writing for Your Discipline
  • Identify key stylistic elements of paper writing in their specific discipline.
  • Read papers in their discpline for style.
  • Apply these stylistic elements in their own writing.

["Reading for Writing""Style Guide""Google doc""disciplinary writing""subject-specific writing""improve""writing skills""academic journal article""reading skills""writing strategy""writing""reading""academic writing""scholarly article"]

Workshops

Title Learning Outcomes Tags
Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources
  • Identify strategies for avoiding plagiarism
  • Accurately cite sources in a consistent style
  • Summarize, paraphrase, and directly quote a text

["Plagiarism""Academic Honesty""Citation""Citing Sources""Paraphrase""Summary""Summarize""Quote""Direct quote""in-text citation""self-plagiarism""unintentional""accidental""cite""bibliography"]
Beginning Your Research Journey
  • Describe the nature of research
  • Identify reasons to do research
  • Articulate your goals and necessary skills for doing research
  • Find campus resources that match your needs and interests

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""stem""science"]
Collecting and Citing Sources
  • Install Zotero and create a Zotero account
  • Save and organize your sources
  • Quickly generate a bibliography in your preferred citation style

["Zotero""citation management""cite""bibliography""plagiarism"]
Crafting a Research Question
  • Generate potential research questions
  • Refine and improve your research questions
  • Explain the broader significance of your research question

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""research question""stem""science"]
Developing Research Questions and Creating Keywords
  • Develop specific research questions from a topic
  • Turn questions into keywords
  • Construct a preliminary search for your specific research question

["research questions""keywords""search strategies""Cornerstone Research Workshops"]
Developing your Long Term Research Plan
  • Articulate your research topic or question
  • Define your long-term research project goals
  • Break down your long-term goals into manageable tasks

["planning a research project""UCLA Undergraduate Research Centers""Cornerstone Research Workshops""time management""planning"]
Finding Sources with the UCLA Library
  • Find research guides related to your project
  • Find sources using the UCLA Library catalog
  • Find scholarly articles using online databases

["searching for books""searching for articles""research at UCLA""Cornerstone Research Workshops""finding books""finding articles"]
Finding a Research Mentor or Project
  • Identify your research interests
  • Identify potential mentors and research projects
  • Make a list of potential mentors and research projects

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""research mentor"]
Getting Started with Research at UCLA
  • Identify possible areas of interest for a research project
  • Find campus resources that match your needs and interests
  • Create a concrete plan with the first steps for getting involved in research

["getting started with research""research at UCLA""UCLA Undergraduate Research Centers""UCLA Undergraduate Research Portal"]
Research Logistics
  • Identify benefits of faculty- and student-led research projects
  • Identify differences between SRP 99 and Departmental 195-199

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""planning""stem""science"]
Sharing Your Research
  • Write a research abstract
  • Deliver an effective elevator speech about your research project

["abstract""elevator speech""elevator pitch""research abstract""conference""academic conference""oral presentation""poster presentation""research poster""symposium"]
Writing a Literature Review
  • Recognize key components of a literature review
  • Identify a knowledge gap in previous research and express how you can address the gap
  • Organize sources effectively and logically

["literature review""writing""research""synthesis matrix""review articles"]
Your Research Plan
  • Create a timeline of your research goals
  • Document your research progress

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""research plan""research notebook""research paper planner""SMART goals""timeline""stem""science"]
Your Resources and Methodology
  • Locate resources relevant to your research
  • Identify potential methodologies

["Undergraduate Research at UCLA""undergraduate research""getting started""Entering Research""academic sources""academic database""expanding perspectives in your search""finding sources""research guides""research methods""stem""science"]

The ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is a set of concepts, knowledge practices, and dispositions for research and information literacy.

The following is a list of WI+RE resources organized by their relationship to the concepts in the ACRL Framework. Note that resources are often related to more than one conceptual area of the framework.


Authority is Constructed and Contextual

Information Creation as a Process

Information Has Value

Research as Inquiry

Scholarship as Conversation

Searching as Strategic Exploration

The Core Competencies for Research and Information Literacy at UCLA outline a set of key stages in the research and writing process. The following activities were designed to help learners and researchers succeed with each of these key stages.

Define the goals, scope, and plan

Investigate diverse sources and perspectives

Gather and organize information and data

Evaluate and synthesize information and data

Use information and data ethically

Share the work and engage with audiences

Reflect on and refine the research process