In the technological world of the Twenty-first Century, students must be information literate. They must have the skills to access, evaluate, and utilize information needed in their undergraduate experience and in their future endeavors. It is important for Geography majors to acquire these skills as part of their undergraduate education. At one institution of higher learning, information literacy learning is embedded in the Geography curriculum. An online instrument to assess information literacy skills is used to evaluate seniors. In this article, goals for information literacy, the creation of the information literacy assessment instrument and the results of assessment testing are discussed.
As information literacy instruction outcomes assessment in academic libraries continues to increase as a key indicator of pedagogical value both within libraries and throughout their parent institutions, the call for the design and implementation of such assessment continues to rise as well. Ideally, this process is supported with adequate time, funding, and personnel. The reality, however, is not always so accommodating. This case study relates the Brooklyn Campus Library of Long Island University's experience with developing a start-from-scratch outcomes assessment of information literacy instruction in its undergraduate core curriculum.
Threshold concepts are a theory of teaching and learning proposed by two British
educators, Jan Meyer and Ray Land. Threshold concepts can be used for teaching information literacy and could inform the Standards revision as well. There are five definitional criteria that make a concept a threshold concept
What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds. The threshold concept framework holds promise for librarians because it grounds the instructor in the big ideas and underlying concepts that make information literacy exciting and worth learning about. This paper looks at how this new idea relates to existing standards and posits several threshold concepts for information literacy.
Alison Pope, Keith Puttick and Geoff Walton have been involved in the information literacy aspects of a project to help students improve their research skills and they report on this and the wider current debates on information literacy with an emphasis throughout on legal research skills.
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47-48(July 2007)M3: Article; Alqudsi-Ghabra, Taghreed 1; Affiliations: 1: Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, College of Social Sciences of Kuwait University.; Issue Info: Jul2007, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p47; Thesaurus Term: KNOWLEDGE management; Thesaurus Term: SCHOOL libraries; Thesaurus Term: SCHOOL librarians; Thesaurus Term: INFORMATION literacy; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; Number of Pages: 2p; Document Type: Article.
G. Hart. Innovation (10258892), (June 2006)M3: Article; Hart, Genevieve 1; Email Address: ghart@uwc.ac.za; Affiliations: 1: Department of Library and Information Science, University of the Western Cape; Issue Info: Jun2006 Issue 32, p74; Thesaurus Term: INFORMATION literacy; Thesaurus Term: PUBLIC libraries; Thesaurus Term: LITERACY programs; Thesaurus Term: LIBRARIES & education; Subject: SOUTH Africa; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; NAICS/Industry Codes: 611691 Exam Preparation and Tutoring; Number of Pages: 20p; Illustrations: 1 chart; Document Type: Article.
C. Barnett. School Library Media Activities Monthly, 24 (7):
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