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Information Literacy

2014

Claremont Colleges

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Librarians Matter! Impact On First-Year Information Literacy Skills At 5 Colleges, M. Sara Lowe, Char Booth, Sean M. Stone, Natalie Tagge, Alexandra Chappell, Gale Burrow Jun 2014

Librarians Matter! Impact On First-Year Information Literacy Skills At 5 Colleges, M. Sara Lowe, Char Booth, Sean M. Stone, Natalie Tagge, Alexandra Chappell, Gale Burrow

Library Staff Publications and Research

This poster reports results of an assessment of student writing from the first-year seminar/experience programs at five separate undergraduate colleges. Papers (n=416) were coded by level of librarian involvement in the class, and then scored using an Information Literacy rubric. Results indicate that students in courses with higher librarian involvement demonstrate better IL skills (that are statistically significant) than those in courses with low involvement.