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Download full textJacobson, Trudi E.; Gibson, Craig – Communications in Information Literacy, 2015
Following the action of the ACRL Board in February 2015 in accepting the "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" as one of the "constellation of documents" that promote and guide information literacy instruction and program development, discussion in the library community continues about steps in implementing…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Program Implementation, Academic Libraries
Direct linkLudovico, Carrie; Wittig, Carol – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2015
We spend hours teaching students where to go to find resources, but how do students really use those scholarly resources--and other resources--in their papers? Inspired by the Citation Project, University of Richmond liaison librarians examined First-Year Seminar papers to see what types of sources students used in their writing, how they…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Information Sources, Writing Assignments, First Year Seminars
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
Peer reviewedSugranes, Maria R.; Neal, James A. – College and Research Libraries, 1983
Discusses procedures used to evaluate the instructional effectiveness of materials and methods implemented in a self-paced college credit course in library skills. A description of the course and assessment strategies used--multiple-choice assignments, end-of-course test, an attitudinal survey--are included. Twelve references are cited.…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Libraries, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
McGregor, Joy – 1996
This paper describes two studies conducted with high school students doing library research and writing research papers, with the objective of examining the effectiveness of this type of assignment. The students were all in grade 11, the first group in Canada, the second in the United States. Students were observed in the classroom before they…
Descriptors: Assignments, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, High School Students
