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2015

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Collaboration In Learning: Partnering Academic Support Services For Esl Student Information Literacy, Vickie L. Mix, Nathan Ziegler, Nathan Serfling, Maria Ramos-Garcia Jun 2015

Collaboration In Learning: Partnering Academic Support Services For Esl Student Information Literacy, Vickie L. Mix, Nathan Ziegler, Nathan Serfling, Maria Ramos-Garcia

Vickie Mix

Poster session at the annual conference of the American Library Association featured the collaborative research work of Briggs Library and the ESL and Writing Center Departments that sought to promote, develop and assess academic information literacy skills among ESL students in a remedial writing class. The project was part of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Assessment in Action program.

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Breathing Life Into Information Literacy Skills: Results Of A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration, Divonna M. Stebick, Janelle L. Wertzberger, Margaret E. Flora, Joseph W. Miller May 2015

Breathing Life Into Information Literacy Skills: Results Of A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration, Divonna M. Stebick, Janelle L. Wertzberger, Margaret E. Flora, Joseph W. Miller

Janelle Wertzberger

When an education professor and a reference librarian sought to improve the quality of undergraduate student research, their partnership led to a new focus on assessing the research process in addition to the product. In this study, we reflect on our collaborative experience introducing information literacy as the foundation for undergraduate teacher education research. We examine the outcomes of this collaboration, focusing on the assessment of the process. Using a mixed methods approach, we found that direct instruction supporting effective research strategies positively impacted student projects. Our data also suggest that undergraduate students benefit from not only sound research strategies, …

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