2012 Conference Archive
What's in a Name? First-Year College Students React to the Term "Information Literacy"
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Copyright
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Location
Room 100
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
How efficacious is the term “information literacy”? Interestingly, there is a dearth of research on students’ perceptions of the term. This presentation will report on two studies of first-year college students, in which participants were asked whether they had heard the term “information literacy” before, what their reaction was to the term, and how they would define the term. The findings raise questions about the usefulness of the term and, as such, have important implications for practice and research.
Keywords
Information literacy, College freshman
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Latham, Don and Gross, Melissa, "What's in a Name? First-Year College Students React to the Term "Information Literacy"" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 95.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/95
What's in a Name? First-Year College Students React to the Term "Information Literacy"
Room 100
See presentation description.
