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Parrott, Jill; Napier, Trenia – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2023
This research asks whether a competency-based curriculum designed to integrate information literacy, critical reading, and writing improves students' ability to critically read sources and then use source content for their own purposes. We hypothesized that critical reading-infused library instruction, course instruction, and curriculum support…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Competency Based Education, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Robyn Hall – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Supported by institutional commitments to community engagement, undergraduate students at universities across North America are participating in community-based research projects. These experiential learning activities allow students to collaborate with community partners to address issues in their communities, often resulting in co-creating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Community Education, Research Projects
Kung Jin Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Participatory Design is a design method that includes the end users in technology design. While there are studies that examine the implementation of PD methods in both Library and Information Science and Human Computer Interaction research, existing studies lack an examination of how participant groups are created and maintained. This study…
Descriptors: Facilitators (Individuals), Participatory Research, Design, Skill Development
Worosz, Michelle R.; Farrell, Bridget; Jenda, Claudine A. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
This article describes a project to engage sociology students in real-world research designed to foster critical thinking about food security. Faculty-librarian collaboration was an essential component. An open-ended questionnaire was administered to three classes at the end of the semester. Assessed were students' experiences gathering data and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Instruction, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Food
Jones, Phil; Bauder, Julia; Engel, Kevin – College & Research Libraries, 2016
Grinnell College participated in ACRL's [Association of College and Research Libraries] first cohort of Assessment in Action (AiA), undertaking a mixed-methods action research project to assess the effectiveness of librarian-led research literacy sessions in improving students' research skills. The quantitative data showed that the quality of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Private Colleges, Mixed Methods Research, Action Research
Hensley, Merinda Kaye – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Undergraduate research and other high-impact educational practices simulate real-world learning environments and present an opportunity for high-level information literacy teaching to be better incorporated into the curriculum. The purpose of this survey is to examine efforts of libraries currently offering IL instruction to undergraduate research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Projects, Educational Practices, Information Literacy
Maddison, Tasha; Beneteau, Donna; Sokoloski, Brandy – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
This case study describes the use of flipped teaching for information literacy instruction in a new course, "Drill, Blast, and Excavate GeoE 498," within the mining option for geological engineering (GeoE) students. These students will enter the mining industry with less discipline-specific knowledge than a student that graduated with a…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Imler, Bonnie; Eichelberger, Michelle – College & Research Libraries, 2011
This study focuses on a quantitative assessment of undergraduate student use of SFX citation linking software. The study seeks to reveal whether or not students are using SFX, and, if so, how they are using it. Study participants were Penn State Altoona students, all of whom had received basic library instruction. Their research sessions were…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Citations (References), Courseware
Leibiger, Carol A. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Literacy, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Problem Based Learning
Nutefall, Jennifer E.; Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question.…
Descriptors: Student Research, Librarians, Library Instruction, College Faculty
Barratt, Caroline Cason; Nielsen, Kristin; Desmet, Christy; Balthazor, Ron – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This study describes a collaborative research project between two composition instructors and two librarians that analyzed citation patterns among students in the First-year Composition Program at the University of Georgia. Built upon earlier bibliometric studies, this study seeks not only to examine a large data set of citations--larger than was…
Descriptors: Student Research, Cooperation, Writing Instruction, Librarians
Think Warm Thoughts: Plan Ahead for Summertime Information Literacy Programs! The College Connection
Kasowitz-Scheer, Abby – Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2009
It's winter! While it is frosty outside, one can at least think warm thoughts by starting now to plan ahead for summer information literacy programs. This article is designed to provide some ideas for planning next summer's reading, sleuthing, and research programs. It features a variety of programs organized by academic librarians this past…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Librarians, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Ury, Connie Jo, Ed.; Park, Sarah G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
Twenty-one scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the tenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Research Needs, Student Research, Research Projects
Gordon, Carol – School Library Media Research, 2006
This is a detailed review of an in-depth action research training model and an investigation of how that model, supported through virtual and personal guidance from an academic researcher, served to impact the instructional practice of a small sample of school library media specialists (SLMSs). The researcher operates in the third dimension,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Research Projects, School Libraries
Fafeita, Jenny – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2006
This paper presents the findings of a research project about Australian TAFE librarians' information literacy practices. The project addressed two research questions: What are the practices that TAFE librarians use to teach and foster information literacy? What changes have occurred since the last TAFE information literacy survey in 2001? During…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Foreign Countries, Librarian Attitudes, Educational Practices