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Undergraduate Research Experiences Grow Career-Ready Transferable Skills
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Charles W. Gunnels IV; Jaclyn Chastain; Shawn Brunelle; Anna Carlin; Thomas M. Cimarusti; Mary Crone-Romanovski; Richard W. Coughlin; Carolyn Culbertson; Jason Elek; April Felton; Shawn Felton; Debra A. Giambo; Katie Johnson; Shawn Keller; Dawn Kirby; Santiago Luaces; Derek Lura; Peter Reuter; Tunde Szecsi; Rachel Tait-Ripperdan; Scott Vanselow; Judy Wynekoop; Hulya Julie Yazici; Melodie H. Eichbauer – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2024
Although higher education aims to provide holistic learning and career preparation, there is growing skepticism about its value, with segments of the public scrutinizing concerns about tuition, student loan debt, and job prospects. Between 2015 and 2020, Florida Gulf Coast University implemented a quality enhancement plan (FGCUScholars) that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Career Readiness, Student Attitudes
Community College Librarian Views of Student Information Literacy Needs
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Don Latham; Melissa Gross; Heidi Julien – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper shares the results of semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who have instruction duties. The interviews explored these librarians' perceptions of students' information literacy (IL) strengths and weaknesses as well as their views of students' self-perceptions. Participants believe that students are confident in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
Primary Source Knowledge Acquisition through Recursive Assignments: A Case Study
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Strom, Claire; Strom, Phoebe; Walton, Rachel; Ewing, Hannah – History Teacher, 2023
In 2014, at Rollins College, a liberal arts college in central Florida, the history department completely revised its curriculum. Like their peers across the history discipline, Rollins history faculty saw a disconnect between its traditional curriculum--with a stress on lecture and memorization--and the actual process of doing history. Colleges…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Skill Development, Primary Sources
Teaching and Evaluating Skills for Undergraduate Research in the Teacher Education Program
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Szecsi, Tunde; Gunnels, Charles; Greene, Jackie; Johnston, Vickie; Vazquez-Montilla, Elia – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2019
Teacher candidates have lower participation in undergraduate research than students in other disciplines. To enable teacher candidates to develop skills for scholarly activities and to engage them in research activities, teacher education programs utilize diverse approaches. This article describes a strategy to promote undergraduate research among…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Skills, Teacher Education Programs, Scholarship
Librarian-Faculty Collaboration on a Library Research Assignment and Module for College Experience Classes
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Keyes, Anne; Barbier, Pat – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2013
A librarian and faculty member collaborated on creating a library research module for students in the faculty member's college success classes to help them learn the fundamentals of information literacy. Using the assignment "My Ideal Job," the students met four or more times with the librarian in a computer classroom to learn how to do…
Descriptors: Library Research, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Educational Experience, Learning Modules
Finders Keepers: A Comparative Study Investigating Teaching the Florida Research Process FINDS Model through Three Different Approaches at the Elementary School Level
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Serrell, Karen K. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The children's taunt "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers" gives new credence to the information search process at the elementary school level. Children keep what they find, claim it as their own, and accept information without discernment or critique. This study examines the effectiveness of teaching information literacy skills through…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Methods Research, Research Methodology, Student Interests
A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration for Developing Information Literacy Skills among Preservice Teachers
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Floyd, Deborah M.; Colvin, Gloria; Bodur, Yasar – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
Preservice teachers enrolled in the first portion of an undergraduate education program at the Florida State University were assigned to develop case studies based on their experience working in local elementary schools. The case studies were to include research from the scholarly literature of the field using a rubric developed by the instructor…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Research, Citations (References), Information Literacy