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Direct linkCharles 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
Sarah van Ingen Lauer; Susan Ariew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This article describes how and why the Dunning-Kruger effect, in which novice students fail to recognize their own lack of research skills, often occurs with the one-shot library instruction mode. In contrast, we offer a holistic model of instruction that emphasizes closer information literacy connections to higher education curricula. Through…
Descriptors: Librarians, Research Skills, Low Achievement, Underachievement
Alamettälä, Tuulikki; Sormunen, Eero – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term development of online research skills among lower secondary school students and how various factors such as teaching interventions and students' self-efficacy, attitudes, information and communication technology (ICT) activity and gender are associated with development.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Research Skills, Online Searching, Intervention
Benson, Sara Rachel; Trei, Kelli; Hensley, Merinda Kaye – College & Research Libraries, 2021
This study sought to better understand students' grasp of complex copyright issues. Thirty-one undergraduate STEM students were interviewed to learn more regarding what students know about basic copyright and how they learned what they know about it. The interviews revealed that students often conflate aspects of copyright and plagiarism. Most…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Copyrights
Xie, Jingzhen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Academic libraries in Macao, China, began to use the term "information literacy" and to offer information literacy programs approximately three years ago. At the University of Macau, information literacy is considered important to help the honors students become junior researchers. Using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Vinyard, Marc – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Librarians were concerned that transfer students' information literacy skills lagged those of their peers because transfers did not receive the library instruction that other students got in first-year classes. The investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with transfer students to answer two research questions: (1) How do transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Information Seeking
Hart, Emily K.; Annear, Christopher M. – College Teaching, 2020
When researching and writing scholarly papers for semester-long projects, undergraduate students face challenges, such as research anxiety, overestimation of research skills, poor time management, difficulty choosing appropriate sources, and lack of integration between research stages and final product. Student survey results and paper analyses…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Methodology, Rhetoric, Instructional Effectiveness
Lantz, Catherine; Dempsey, Paula R. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2019
Results from focus groups with 23 second- and third-year biology students revealed gradual gains in information literacy (IL) abilities and dispositions needed for them to join the community of scientific practice as laid out in the ACRL "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." Students were consumers of information and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Learning Strategies, Biology, Undergraduate Students
Development of the Online Research and Reading Comprehension Skills Scale for Middle School Students
Download full textCifci, Musa; Ünlu, Süleyman – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2020
Nowadays, online research and reading comprehension skills are among the prominent concepts. It is not possible to deny the effects of the internet on students' daily and academic lives. In the study, a scale was developed to be used in order to reveal the level of internet use of middle school students in their research processes and to determine…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Online Searching, Research Skills, Reading Comprehension
Franco, Josh – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
How can we merge the science of politics and the practice of politics into a single course? In a 16-week, upper division course on state politics, I address the need to develop students' social scientific skills and practical skills through journal article analysis (JAA) teams and public policy project (PPP) teams. I use a within-subjects, pretest…
Descriptors: Political Science, Pretests Posttests, Social Sciences, Course Descriptions
Scott, Rachel E. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
In this exploratory study the authors ask students enrolled in a credit-bearing undergraduate research methods course to rank and evaluate the troublesome, transformative, and integrative nature of the six frames currently comprising the "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." The results indicate that students have…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Literacy, Student Attitudes, Honors Curriculum
Reyes, Betsaida M.; Hicks, Alison; Maxson, Bronwen K. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
Recognizing the importance of designing educational opportunities that draw upon students' prior knowledge and experiences, this paper uses focus groups to explore how Spanish-speaking students in a graduate program at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence understand academic information literacy practices within their new cultural contexts.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Spanish Speaking, Information Literacy
Feola, Elvia Ilaria – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper aims to reflect on the implications and challenges that experts in the field have to deal with when you want to evaluate the performance in the use of digital technologies in teaching. The argument stems from a contextual and social assessment, and then proceeds to an application and methodological connotation of digital literacy…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
France, Derek; Powell, Victoria; Mauchline, Alice L.; Welsh, Katharine; Park, Julian; Whalley, W. Brian; Rewhorn, Sonja – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
The increasing importance of employability in Higher Education curricula and the prevalence of using mobile devices for field-based learning prompted an investigation into student awareness of the relationship between the use of mobile apps for learning and the development of graduate attributes (GAs) (and the link to employability). The results…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Focus Groups
Bentley, Danielle Christine; Robinson, Andrea Cristina; Ruscitti, Robert Joseph – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2015
With the growing volume of obtainable medical information and scientific literature, it is crucial that students in the field of allied health professions develop and refine the research skill set necessary to effectively find, retrieve, analyze, and use this information. This skill set can be effectively developed using student inquiry; an active…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Allied Health Occupations, Inquiry, Active Learning
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