Librarian role‐playing as a method for assessing student information literacy skills
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DOI: 10.1002/pra2.18
Abstract: Researchers and practitioners alike have long investigated the effectiveness of information literacy instruction, addressing what to measure regarding student learning and how to measure it. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we review… read more here.
Keywords: role playing; information literacy; information; librarian role ... See more keywords
Young Adults' Online Sexual Health Information Seeking and Evaluating Skills: Implications for Everyday Life Information Literacy Instruction
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DOI: 10.1002/pra2.599
Abstract: Many young adults (particularly LGBTQ+ young people) often do not receive relevant sexual health information in school‐based health education classes, leaving them with unmet information needs, which they largely go online in order to fulfill.… read more here.
Keywords: information; information literacy; health; young adults ... See more keywords
Seeing Resilience in Students: Information Literacy as a Social Practice for Academic Instruction Librarians
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DOI: 10.1002/pra2.724
Abstract: This poster will describe a dissertation project that consisted of a questionnaire and interview phase followed by a focus group and semi structured diary phase. This project investigated the theory‐to‐practice gap in seeing information literacy… read more here.
Keywords: information; information literacy; practice; instruction librarians ... See more keywords
Predictors of fostering students’ computer and information literacy – analysis based on a representative sample of secondary school teachers in Germany
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DOI: 10.1007/s10639-018-9809-0
Abstract: In Germany schools are obliged to foster students’ digital competences. Based on the proficiency levels of students’ computer and information literacy (CIL) from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2013), and a theoretical… read more here.
Keywords: information; fostering students; computer information; school ... See more keywords
A multilevel modeling approach to investigating factors impacting computer and information literacy: ICILS Korea and Finland sample
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DOI: 10.1007/s10639-021-10690-1
Abstract: With the rapid technological advancements, schools and teachers have great responsibilities to educate students with regard to technological transformations. Students' ease of access to information and communications technology (ICT) tools provides ample opportunities for the… read more here.
Keywords: information; computer information; information literacy; ict ... See more keywords
A Call to Think Broadly about Information Literacy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.09.012
Abstract: Pizzagate. Hired protesters at campaign rallies. Massive voter raud. The Bowling Green Massacre. These are just a few of the any instances of misinformation that went viral during or soon fter the 2016 US Presidential… read more here.
Keywords: information; broadly information; call think; think broadly ... See more keywords
Making information literacy instruction more efficient by providing individual feedback
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DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1079607
Abstract: This paper presents an approach to information literacy instruction in colleges and universities that combines online and classroom learning (Blended Learning). The concept includes only one classroom seminar, so the approach presented here can replace… read more here.
Keywords: making information; literacy instruction; information literacy; information ... See more keywords
Conceptions of scientific knowledge influence learning of academic skills: epistemic beliefs and the efficacy of information literacy instruction
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DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1156666
Abstract: The present article investigates the effects of epistemic beliefs (i.e. beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing) on the effectiveness of information literacy instruction (i.e. instruction on how to search for scholarly information in… read more here.
Keywords: instruction; information; knowledge; literacy instruction ... See more keywords
Effects of Brief Integrated Information Literacy Education Sessions on Undergraduate Engineering Students' Interdisciplinary Research
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DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2017.1365735
Abstract: ABSTRACT Engineering students often conduct information searches without sufficient consideration of the context of their research topic. This article discusses how development of a new information literacy (IL) mindset through instruction in integrated IL education… read more here.
Keywords: engineering students; information; research; information literacy ... See more keywords
Undergraduate Research Needs: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Improve Information Literacy in Policy Papers
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DOI: 10.1080/15236803.2017.12002302
Abstract: Abstract To improve the quality of semester-long policy projects of upper-division political science students, a faculty member and research librarian collaborated to reframe the assignment in hopes of improving students’ research skills and information literacy,… read more here.
Keywords: information; research; collaboration improve; faculty ... See more keywords
The Current Environment of E-learning Development for Information Literacy Instruction by Hospital Librarians
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DOI: 10.1080/15323269.2018.1511222
Abstract: Librarians are experts in information literacy (IL) and hospital librarians are often available to provide in-person instruction or one-on-one training on topics related to evidence-based medicine (EBM; commonly interchangeable with evidence-based practice) and searching for… read more here.
Keywords: instruction; information literacy; hospital librarians;