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Documenting The Information-Seeking Experience Of Remedial Undergraduate Students, Shelley Blundell
Documenting The Information-Seeking Experience Of Remedial Undergraduate Students, Shelley Blundell
Proceedings from the Document Academy
As presented at DOCAM’14, this proceedings paper discusses my ongoing dissertation research: Documenting the information-seeking experience of undergraduate students enrolled in a remedial English course at a 4-year state university in Ohio, United States. Because the information behaviors, needs, and information literacy abilities of these students are understudied areas in library and information science and higher education literature; I chose to investigate these areas in my dissertation research toward contributing research to this gap, using descriptive phenomenological (qualitative) methodology to do so. Although secondary data analysis is still in progress, this paper presents findings from primary analysis (a necessary step …