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A Pilot “Big Data” Education Module Curriculum For Engineering Graduate Education: Development And Implementation, Megan R. Sapp Nelson, Line C. Pouchard

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Projects in engineering higher education increasingly produce data in the volume, variety, velocity, and need for veracity such that the output of the research is considered “Big Data”. While engineering faculty members do conceive of and direct the research producing this data, there may be gaps in faculty members’ knowledge in training graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the practical management of Big Data. The project described in this research paper details the development of a Big Data education module for graduate researchers in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The project has the following objectives: to document and describe current data …

Information & Anxiety: The Impossibility Of 'Literacy' And The Necessity Of Agency, Christie Kliewer, Gesina A. Phillips, Megan Massanelli

Library Faculty Scholarship

Our lives are continuously affected by the information that we encounter in ever-increasing volume. The growing awareness of the dangers of uncritical information consumption (e.g. “fake news”) heightens the relevancy of questions investigating the nature of truth and fact. This anxiety manifests on a more personal level in terms of our vulnerable digital selves—identities can be stolen, personal archives can be lost. Anxiety is deeply personal but can affect public lives, professional lives, teaching, and scholarship as it leads to a loss of nuance and an unwillingness to participate in information creation and exchange. Our personal lives suffer, and so …

Wikiproject (Fill In The Blank) : Be A Wikipedian!, Dana W. R. Boden

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Wikipedia is 16 years old this year. It is ranked the 5th most visited site on the World Wide Web. Many librarians and information specialists have a love hate relationship with this open access, free internet encyclopedia. Searching for information sometimes exposes: a lack of information, or even, existence of entries on specific topics; inaccurate information; or results in the frustration of a research dead end due to articles lacking references. Wikipedia is, of course, a collaboratively edited resource. A Wikipedia WikiProject is a group of contributors working together to improve the Wikipedia information and the pages on a particular …

Identifying Ebook Pedagogies For Literacy Instruction: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Jamey Twitchell Herdelin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

Students in K-6 support becoming digital learners but many lack the digital skills needed to engage with ICTs such as eBooks. Some educators lack the technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) to adjust instruction and meet students’ needs. This study examined the extant body of research on the use of eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction to address the perceived lack of effective evidence based practices needed to build self-efficacy. The goal: identify effective TPK regarding when, how, and why to integrate eBooks with K-6 literacy instruction. The research questions: According to the extant literature, what types of K-6 literacy practices and engagements …

Mapping The Association Of College And Research Libraries Information Literacy Framework And Nursing Professional Standards Onto An Assessment Rubric, Gloria Willson, Katelyn Angell

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

Objective: The authors developed a rubric for assessing undergraduate nursing research papers for information literacy skills critical to their development as researchers and health professionals.

Methods: We developed a rubric mapping six American Nurses Association professional standards onto six related concepts of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We used this rubric to evaluate fifty student research papers and assess inter-rater reliability.

Results: Students tended to score highest on the “Information Has Value” dimension and lowest on the “Scholarship as Conversation” dimension. However, we found a discrepancy between the grading patterns …

Historical Questions And Informational Literacy, Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Information Literacy In Class Room, Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Chesnutt Library Literacy Fellows Pathway: Ninth Cohort, Jennifer J. Marson

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Chestnutt Library Fellows: What Worked (And What Didn’T), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Information Literacy And Precalculus Mathematics I, Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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My Experience Of Being A Chesnutt Fellow On Information Literacy (Final Report), Asitha Kodippili

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Historical Questions And Informational Literacy (Final Report), Robert D. Taber

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Analysis: Information Literacy And Sociology 390 (Final Report), Heather Griffiths

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Information Literacy- Math 129 Precalculus Mathematics I Redesign (Final Report), Wu Jing

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Finding Resources In Chesnutt Library: Books, Articles And Websites, Erin Eldridge

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Do Faculty And Librarians See Information Literacy In The Same Way? A Study Of Alignment, Melody Chin, Daniel Walker

Research Collection Library

Faculty and Librarians are two distinct professional groups each with their own subcultures, values and experiences. Hardesty (1995) noted the existence of a "faculty culture" amongst faculty members, which quite likely shapes and influences the way these individuals perceive a highly subjective concept such as Information Literacy (IL). Faculty and Librarians in higher education institutions often work together in the development of IL Programs. However, despite this collaborative relationship, it is not clear as to whether the two professional groups perceive the concept of IL similarly, or whether there exists a divide. Understanding how both professions perceive IL should be …

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research, Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Information Outlook, March/April 2017, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2017

Volume 21, Issue 2

Using Acs Data To Study The 2016 Election In The Classroom: A Case Study From Bucknell University, Todd Suomela, Carrie M. Pirmann, Janine Glathar

Library and Information Technology Publications

Presenting complex data to an audience which is unfamiliar with the intricacies of data acquisition and management is a challenge for many professionals. Education faculty and staff are no different. Staff at Bucknell University library were approached in 2015 by a faculty member from the economics department for assistance with a class on economic history. The syllabus called for the class to analyze and map the development of the 2016 presidential campaign. Through the course of this project data was gathered from multiple sources, including the American Community Survey. Tools such as ArcGIS, R, and the American FactFinder were integrated …