Annotated Bibliography

• It’s an effective way for students to showcase their information literacy skills, allowing you to evaluate how they locate and apply reference material while highlighting any areas where improvement is needed.
• This approach enhances students’ proficiency in referencing and develops research skills.
• Can be used as a resource for further assessments.
• Keeps students focused on the key points in a text.

This can be especially valuable in the early stages of a programme as it helps identify and rectify issues such as overreliance on search engines like Google and referencing issues.

• This assessment method isn’t commonly used; therefore, a clear and descriptive assessment brief is required. This could include number of references required, type of references (e.g. books and journal articles), referencing styles, and style of annotations. 
• Often summaries of texts may exist, therefore adding an element of personalisation in annotations is recommended.
• It can be difficult to condense key points from larger texts, it is important to set out a clear brief for the assessment