scholarly journals Information literacy views of the teacher candidates registered to pedagogical formation certificate program on Pedagojik formasyon sertifika programına kayıtlı öğretmen adaylarının bilgi okuryazarlığına ilişkin görüşleri

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Burcu Umut Zan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Certificate Program ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Literacy Standards

It is known that different studies are carried out for information literacy standards. In the first step of this study, information literacy standards; which were published by Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), was examined chronogically. These standards are “Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education”, “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education” and “Information Literacy Standards for Teacher Education” respectively. The qualifications required for an appropriate person for information literacy are generally defined according to these standards. Then, in the related literature of information literacy studies which are conducted on teacher, teacher candidates and undergraduate students were examined. This study was carried out in Çankırı Karatekin University in 2016-2017 academic period with the teacher candidates who were in the position of being graduated from different sciences, 106 teacher candidates. Different questions about information literacy were directed to those 106 student and answers received. A qualitative analysis study was carried out by evaluating the answers that received. NVIVO programme was used to analyse the answers. The answers of the teacher candidates were evaluated according to the qualifications determined in the examined standards. As a result, it is seen that teacher candidates are able to define the qualifications of aperson, who is defined as an information literature, are defined as with general terms however they suffer difficulties in details.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBilgi okuryazarlığı standartlarına yönelik olarak farklı çalışmaların yapıldığı bilinmektedir. Bu çalışmada ilk olarak, Amerika Üniversite ve Araştırma Kütüphaneleri Derneği (ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries) tarafından yayımlanan “Yüksek Öğretimde Bilgi Okuryazarlığı Yetkinlik Standartları”, “Öğretmen Eğitimi için Bilgi Okuryazarlığı Standartları” ve “Yükseköğretim İçin Bilgi Okuryazarlığı Çerçevesi” dokümanları kronolojik olarak değerlendirilmiş ve bilgi okuryazarı olarak tanımlanan bir bireyde olması gereken nitelikler genel olarak tanımlanmıştır. Çalışmanın sonraki aşamasında; ilgili literatürde, öğretmen, öğretmen adayı ve lisans öğrencileri üzerine yürütülen bilgi okuryazarlığı çalışmaları incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın son bölümünde; 2016-2017 akademik döneminde, Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesinde, Formasyon eğitimi alan fen ve sosyal bilimler alanlarından 106 öğretmen adayına bilgi okuryazarlığı ile ilgili farklı soruların yöneltilmesi ve alınan yanıtların nitel olarak değerlendirilmesini içeren uygulama çalışmasına yer verilmiştir. Değerlendirme aşamasında, NVİVO 12 programı kullanılmış, alınan yanıtlar derinlemesine analiz edilmiştir. Öğretmen adaylarından alınan yanıtlar, incelenen standartlarda belirlenen nitelikler doğrultusunda değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuç olarak öğretmen adaylarının genel ifadeler ile bilgi okuryazarı bir bireyde olması gereken nitelikleri tanımladıkları ancak detaylarda zorlandıkları dikkat çekmiştir.

scholarly journals Recycling C.R.A.P.: Reframing a Popular Research Mnemonic for Library Instruction

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. LeBlanc ◽  
Barbara Quintiliano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
American Association ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Mnemonic Device ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Student Reflection ◽  
Literacy Standards ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Flexible Framework

In 2015 the American Association of College & Research Libraries jettisoned its long-standing set of Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and adopted the richer, more flexible Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Composed of core concepts rather than prescriptive objectives, the Framework more closely mirrors the complexity of the rapidly evolving academic environment and encourages engagement on the part of students. However, many instruction librarians find that the Frame’s flexibility also poses pedagogical challenges. The authors describe how instruction librarians at one university library have adapted and used a popular mnemonic device when presenting the Frames, thus promoting greater student reflection and interaction.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Evidence-Based Practice and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards: Implications for Information Literacy Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Literacy Standards

Evidence-based practice (EBP), like information literacy, is concerned with an individual’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes relating to using information. EBP is now a professional competency in fields as diverse as social work, nursing and allied health fields, and public policy. A comparison of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education with the commonly accepted EBP model shows congruence, but the two models diverge in their use of authority of the producer as a marker of information quality and in their relative emphasis on formulation of the research question and application of information.

scholarly journals Teaching Foundational Data Skills in the Library

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Beauchamp ◽  
Christine Murray
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
Effective Teaching Strategies

In Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice, edited by Linda Kellam and Kristi Thompson. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015.Undergraduate students often struggle when asked to locate, evaluate, and use data in their research, and librarians have an opportunity to support them as they learn data literacy skills. Much of the literature on data librarianship in this area focuses on data reference services, but there is a lack of scholarship and guidance on how to translate data reference expertise into effective teaching strategies. In this chapter, the authors will bridge that gap between data reference and information literacy instruction.

Bookworms as information literacy? How Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad encouraged OCAD University to re-place the art library through site-interventions

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Payne
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Library As Place ◽  
Spatial Entities

Does the art library need re-placing? Using the commentary of an OCAD University faculty member concerning “a perception issue with the library and its use,” librarian Daniel Payne uses theorist Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad to decode, in general terms, undergraduate students’ understanding of libraries as articulated in the OCLC Perceptions of libraries surveys. In an attempt to re-align concepts of the library as place at OCAD University, an exhibition review interpretation of student site-interventions demonstrates how visual communication can offer more insightful “spatial practices” for both students and library staff. In the process, librarians were challenged to accommodate student creative voices that pushed both policy boundaries and comfort zones. Although a small-scale information literacy initiative in which no formal quantitative data was collected, the ability of having conceptual models of librarians interact and even clash with those of students helped realign both stakeholders’ understandings of libraries as complex spatial entities.

Information Literacy

2011 ◽  
pp. 1178-1182
Author(s):  
Elaine Fabbro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Lifelong Learners ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Need For Information

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education defines information literacy as the ability to recognize the need for information, and be able to locate, evaluate, and use the information effectively (2000, p.2). Information literacy is essential in the creation of lifelong learners (Wallis, 2005, p. 221). Educators struggle continually to ensure that students are not only able to successfully navigate through the plethora of information available, but that they are able to think critically about information, and put it to use in all aspects of their lives. Information literacy skills instruction can serve as a method to help meet this goal. However, in order to provide information literacy instruction it is necessary to fully understand the concept and all it entails, including how it can be implemented and the benefits it offers to students, educators, and higher education institutions as a whole.

scholarly journals Bridging the Knowledge Gap between Secondary and Higher Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorana Ercegovac
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Physics Teacher ◽  
Literacy Standards

This article suggests several intersections for possible collaboration among different educational levels and disciplines. It describes some of the collaborative work between a physics teacher and a librarian at a high school level. In particular, science-integrated information literacy competencies have been selected that may easily be mapped to, and extended for, higher education. The paper concludes with directions for further study and a crossover between information literacy standards for secondary schools and colleges.

scholarly journals Mining writing center data for information literacy practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Graves ◽  
Kathy Christie Anders ◽  
Valerie M. Balester
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Writing Center ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Writing Centers ◽  
Literacy Intervention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Institutional Boundaries

Purpose The study aims to explore collaborations between writing centers and libraries which create opportunities for providing information literacy intervention for students doing researched writing. This case study gathered data from writing center logs to uncover if and how information literacy activity was occurring during consultations. Design/methodology/approach A representative sample of writing center logs recorded between September of 2013 and May 2014 was mined for frequencies of library and information literacy terms. Transaction logs were coded and analyzed according to the frames in the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Findings Information literacy is discussed in only 13 per cent of consultations. Referrals to librarians accounted for less than 1 per cent of all transactions. Students most commonly asked for assistance in formatting citations, but deeper information literacy conversations did occur that provide opportunities for engagement with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Research limitations/implications Transactions were examined from one university. Although findings cannot be generalized, the results were applicable to local services, and this study provides a model useful for libraries and writing centers. Practical implications This study provides ample direction for future collaborations that will take advantage of the intersections of information literacy and writing instruction to improve student research skills. Originality/value Although much has been written about partnerships between libraries and writing centers, this study uniquely demonstrates a model for data sharing across institutional boundaries and how one library mined existing data from a writing center.

scholarly journals Library as Research Lab

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Schell ◽  
Meghan Sitar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University

Information literacy at the graduate level can happen at the intersection of research method education and mentorship into a disciplinary community of practice with its own traditions of inquiry, communication, and knowledge creation. Funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Library as Research Lab Project at the University of Michigan enables graduate students, academic librarians, and information science faculty to engage in a series of research activities together, illuminating tacit knowledge in information studies and librarianship, both as a discipline and as a profession. In the project, three interconnected labs pursue authentic research questions emerging from challenges faced by the Library while providing School of Information students with mentorship, new skills, and a fellowship stipend. A common curriculum across the labs includes research ethics, publishing, project management, and current issues in higher education research. Engaging with the frames of “Research as Inquiry” and “Scholarship as Conversation” from the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education​, students also learn how to effectively discuss, iterate upon, and present their research activities to different audiences. At the end of the fellowship, students enter the profession with an understanding of complex challenges facing libraries and with new strategies for responding to ambiguity and pursuing new solutions through research. As we complete the final year of the grant, the librarians from the Design Thinking for Library Services Lab will reflect on lessons learned and share student perspectives as a way of discussing how similar initiatives might facilitate positive and critically engaged research projects at other institutions. Attendees will be able to describe strategies for developing similar environments in support of authentic research experiences and will be able to apply strategies documented in a mentoring handbook from the project in their own work.

scholarly journals Supporting medical innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander James Carroll ◽  
Shelby Hallman
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Medical Innovation ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This presentation will share the results of a longitudinal cohort study of undergraduate students matriculating through the UNC & NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. Over the last few years, students in this program have participated in an experimental, specialized information literacy training program aimed at preparing them to navigate the labyrinth of business hurdles associated with medical innovation and entrepreneurship. This longitudinal study, led by two librarians, sought to determine whether an intensive, specialized information literacy training program could introduce undergraduate biomedical engineering students to the complex environment surrounding innovative design in healthcare and medical entrepreneurship in order to improve their design projects. In addition to discussing our study’s results, we will share our lessons learned from conducting this study and some possible implications for professional practice. We will close with a discussion of the challenges involved in partnering with an academic department to conduct formal assessments of student learning, and by sharing practical strategies that other librarians can use to identify opportunities to build similar partnerships at their local institutions.Originally presented at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Annual Meeting 2018 in Durham, NC on August 20, 2018.

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