Depending on your course, there are a variety of research assignments that could be used to to assess your students' learning, including:
Annotated bibliographies can be stand-alone assignments, or can be used as a "check in" for faculty to review student research sources.
For student support in writing literature reviews, see the Seneca Libraries Annotated Bibliographies overview with APA and MLA templates, as well as our library package with accompanying quiz.
Applied research projects allow students to brainstorm solutions to real world problems through the creation of their own primary research.
For student support in writing literature reviews, see the Seneca Libraries Applied Research tutorial and library package with accompanying quiz.
Using digital assignments can help foster creativity, support multimodal learning, appeal to multiple learning preferences, and increase student engagement. Digital research assignments could include presenting research through videos, infographics, blogs, podcasts and other digital content.
For information on designing digital assignments, see the Seneca Sandbox module.
The term "literature review" could be used in several ways in assignment instructions:
For student support in writing literature reviews, see the Seneca Libraries Literature Review tutorial and library package with accompanying quiz.
Community of Online Research Assignments is an open access resource for faculty and librarians.
Contact your Liaison Librarian to discuss library supports for these and other alternative assignments.