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Affective Learning and Personal Information Management: Essential Components of Information Literacy
Download full textCahoy, Ellysa Stern – Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
"Affective competence," managing the feelings and emotions that students encounter throughout the content creation/research process, is essential to academic success. Just as it is crucial for students to acquire core literacies, it is essential that they learn how to manage the anxieties and emotions that will emerge throughout all…
Descriptors: Information Management, Psychological Patterns, Information Literacy, Librarians
Direct linkEdwards, Valerie A. – Knowledge Quest, 2007
In this article, the author discusses how she uses formative assessments of information literacy skills in the high school IMC. As a result of informal observation and conversations with individual students--a form of formative assessment itself--the author learned that students were not using indexes to locate relevant information in nonfiction…
Descriptors: Reference Materials, Formative Evaluation, Information Literacy, Information Skills
Gibson, Mary Jane; Kaczmarek, Mildred – 1977
This two-part book has been prepared to assist the students of Rochelle Township High School in their search for information in the library. Part I introduces library classification, the card catalog, and basic reference sources freshman students will learn how to use in the library research skills unit of their first semester English course.…
Descriptors: Library Guides, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Reference Materials
Covert-Vail, Lucinda, Ed.; Kennedy, Ann, Ed. – 1987
Designed to be used as part of the library education program of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University, this series includes the following research guides: (1) How to Cite References; (2) Annotated Bibliographies; (3) How to Use American Statistics Index; (4) How to Use Biological Abstracts; (5) How to Use Chemical…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Indexes, Library Guides, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedArdhanareeswaran, B. – Journal of Reading, 1977
Discusses the importance of developing reference skills. (MKM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Library Skills, Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedReddick, David B. – Journalism Educator, 1981
Describes a library exercise for journalism students designed to engage them in using library reference books. (HOD)
Descriptors: Education, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Journalism
Gibson, Mary Jane; Kaczmarek, Mildred – 1977
Designed to accompany the library handbook for freshman students at Rochelle Township High School, this workbook includes a variety of purposeful activities to reinforce the learning of basic library research skills and the use of tools. Topics covered include: how the Dewey Decimal System works; how to use the card catalog; how to locate books in…
Descriptors: Activities, High School Students, Library Instruction, Library Skills
PDF pending restorationRothstein, Pauline M. – 1980
The Training System Model (TSM) is designed to prepare education students to find and use information sources effectively for course assignments. It describes how a basic information utilization skills training program can be constructed for education students with different information needs. Training in information utilization skills as…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Information Utilization, Library Services, Library Skills
Sayre, John R. – Learning Today, 1976
Presents two diagrams that model the communication process used by a learner solving academic problems. (PF)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diagrams, Learning Processes, Library Skills
Peer reviewedToifel, Peggy; Doelker, Richard E., Jr. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1986
This instructor's manual and workbook are designed to familiarize students with the basic information sources in social work. The instructor's manual provides an explanation of the workbook's arrangement and scope; specific teaching procedures; assignments; and answers. The workbook covers the various types of bibliographic tools as well as the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Skills, Reference Materials
Nelson, Raedeane M. – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Library Skills, Reading Instruction
Frinsko, William; Drew, George M. – Elementary English, 1972
Article's purpose is to acquaint teachers with the variety of index entries that children will encounter in their use of references. (Author)
Descriptors: Indexes, Library Instruction, Library Skills, Reference Materials
Peer reviewedGauthier, Lane Roy – Arizona Reading Journal, 1990
Describes a strategy to aid upper elementary students in learning about reference materials, specifically the dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, and card catalog. (SR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedSanacore, Joseph – Journal of Reading, 1974
Describes a technique for teaching students to locate information in the library and through reference books. (RB)
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Library Skills, Reading Materials, Reference Materials
Oakland Unified School District, CA. – 1964
THE LIBRARY SKILLS TEST IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS. PART I REQUIRES A KNOWLEDGE OF (1) DIFFERENT TYPES OF BOOKS, SUCH AS PRIMARY BOOKS, REFERENCE BOOKS, NONFICTION, FICTION, AND BIOGRAPHY, (2) THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM, (3) THE THREE MAIN TYPES OF CATALOGING CARDS BY AUTHOR, SUBJECT, AND TITLE, AND (4) THE USE OF REFERENCE BOOKS. PART II OF THE TEST…
Descriptors: Dewey Decimal Classification, Library Services, Library Skills, Library Standards
