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Baird, Catherine; Soares, Tiffany – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
The study investigates the perceptions of first-year writing faculty of how their students develop information literacy (IL). The authors conducted 16 semi-structured interviews and analyzed them using a qualitative inductive coding method. The study contributes a close and nuanced understanding of faculty perceptions of IL learning to a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Information Literacy, Freshman Composition
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Lenker, Mark – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
The developmentalist conception of information's value makes learning the central consideration for evaluating information. Following philosopher Richard Kraut, this article argues that developmentalism provides an important complement to prevalent methods of teaching the evaluation of information. These methods emphasize (a) trustworthiness--for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Teaching Methods, Librarians
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Leporati, Becky Ramsey; Bach, Pam; Hong, Lisa – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
While educators and librarians have long been concerned with developing undergraduates' ability to find credible sources, the abundance of unreliable information online has exponentially complicated the situation. In developing a new curriculum for English Composition 1001 classes, a first-year writing class at the University of Cincinnati, we…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Academic Libraries
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Mery, Yvonne; Newby, Jill; Peng, Ke – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
This study investigates whether the type of instruction (a single face-to-face librarian-led instruction, instructor-led instruction, or an online IL course--the Online Research Lab) has an impact on student information literacy gains in a Freshman English Composition program. A performance-based assessment was carried out by analyzing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Bibliographies, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods