scholarly journals Integrating Information Literacy into Curriculum Assessment Practice: An Informatics Case Study

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Annette Meldrum ◽  
◽  
Holly Tootell
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Curriculum Assessment ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Integrated Information

This article describes how an Informatics subject has integrated information literacy skills into its curriculum assessment practice. The paper provides a background on the role information literacies have in student learning and explains the importance of ensuring the literacies are aligned with subject content and assessment practice. It describes the results of an informatics subject that has been developed through collaboration between Academic and Faculty Librarian.

Researcher Unbound and National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries' Evolving Role in Supporting University Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-246
Author(s):  
Fang Chiong (Patrick) Pu ◽  
Su Yian Kho ◽  
Ke Khoon Low ◽  
Amy Chou
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
University Research ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Continual Improvement ◽  
National University ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
The University

As a discipline-neutral entity, knowledge exchange, and nexus of the university, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries is the ideal conduit for bringing together faculties and departments to facilitate cross-disciplinary education and research. This case study gives a detailed walkthrough on the creation and design of the Research Skills Framework (RSF), which forms the backbone for all information literacy programmes (ILPs), specifically the flagship Researcher Unbound (RU) programme and RU Symposium, and shares challenges faced and future improvement plans. The exploration, design, and continual improvement of the programme ensured that NUS Libraries provides relevant and timely research support and enhances the digital information literacy skills of the NUS community. This programme continues to be a work in progress drawn from participants' feedback, attendance, experience, and insights from seven semestral runs and cumulative total of 172 workshop sessions.

Agoge: an information literacy game for transfer students

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kearns ◽  
Breanne A. Kirsch ◽  
Virginia Cononie
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interactive Game ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Admissions Process

Purpose This paper aims to describe a successful outreach to transfer students through an interactive information literacy game. While the main purpose of the game is to introduce students to research and university library resources, it also allows for an analysis of incoming students’ information literacy skills. Design/methodology/approach This case study outlines the evolution of the game from a test-like tutorial administered through the Blackboard course management system to an interactive game in two iterations, describing the game in relation to game design and best practices and discussing how the artwork for the game was created. An analysis of data from student answers to the game questions over time shows what librarians have learned about the information literacy skills of incoming transfer students. Finally, student feedback about the game collected through a survey is presented along with ideas for future modifications. Findings This paper provides insights into the design and creation process of an interactive information literacy game and a model for how similar games can help librarians assess students’ information literacy skills. Practical implications Transfer students are hard to reach as a group at many institutions. An interactive game targeted to transfers during the admissions process is a potentially effective way to reach out to them. Originality/value This paper brings together two important issues in the library literature: how to reach out to transfer students and educational library games. Librarians involved with these issues will benefit from the paper’s insights and practical advice.

scholarly journals Information Literacy For The Net Generation To Anticipate The Danger Of Intolerance

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Heni Nuraeni Zaenudin ◽  
Suwatno .
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Main Medium ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Intolerance behaviors that are not anticipated may give birth to the danger of radicalism both psychologically and physically.  This study aims at exploring the way to select and discover informational sources related to the topics; at investigating a means of estimating, accepting, and determining the best thing in the future; at analyzing a means of building new knowledge associated with gained information; and discovering a means of providing and broadcasting information on the website.  This study used case study method in order to observe the reality of information literacy and the danger of intolerance among the net generation Observation findings show that the doctrine of intolerance was spread through group discussions of religious Student Activity Unit (UKM). The massive spread of radical viruses is supported by the dominance of the internet as the main medium in information searching. The condition is made worse by low information literacy skills. The results of this study expected to be able to be used as references relating to information literacy for the net generation to anticipate the danger of intolerance which is the forerunner of radicalism. The results showed that the low reading abilities led to a conservative interpretation of religious meanings, which considered one’s understanding more correct and accused others as infidels. This phenomenon can be seen from the discovery of limited new knowledge. Hence, the knowledge of information literacy must be introduced in lecture rooms and within intra-university activities.

scholarly journals Wikipedia editing and information literacy: a case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 118 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Dawe ◽  
Ainslie Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the success of a Wikipedia editing assessment designed to improve the information literacy skills of a cohort of first-year undergraduate health sciences students. Design/methodology/approach In this action research case study (known hereafter as “the project” to differentiate this action research from the students’ own research), students researched, wrote and published Wikipedia articles on Australia-centric health topics. Students were given a pre- and post-test to assess levels of self-confidence in finding, evaluating and referencing information. Student work was also analysed in terms of article length and quantity and the type of information sources used. Findings Tests revealed that students’ self-confidence in their information literacy skills improved overall. Analysis of student work revealed that students wrote longer articles and incorporated more references than expected. References used were of appropriate quality relevant to the article despite minimal instructions. Originality/value There are few studies that investigate information literacy development through Wikipedia editing in Australian universities. This study shows that Wikipedia editing is an effective way to carry out student assessment prior to essay writing and an innovative platform to improve information literacy skills in undergraduate students.

Information literacies of self-identified sadomasochists: an ethnographic case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tuomas Harviainen
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
National Level ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present findings on the way in which self-identified sadomasochist apply their information literacy skills, and to analyse those applications in the context of existing research on information literacies (IL). Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the author’s two decades of ethnographic work within a national-level sadomasochist community, supplemented by interviews with 30 practitioners and an extensive literature survey. Findings – Sadomasochists avoid the social stigma associated with their activities by developing highly refined ILs. Central among these is the ability to learn from other practitioners by reading and interpreting their actions as “texts.” They furthermore stockpile potentially useful information for later use. Their ILs not only make sadomasochists more skilled in their practices, but also provide them with safety. Originality/value – By examining its subject community, the paper develops the ideas of embodied information literacy, currently strongly associated with workplace learning, to the hobby and lifestyle sectors, as it deals with a particularly corporeal set of ILs. This radical example allows scholars to conduct research on the ILs other communities of practice, in which the activities may be less obviously corporeal, but the literacies just as based on embodied interpretation and the reading of others’ activities as texts.

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