Information literacy for all: Looking back at six years of information literacy instruction in a required freshman course
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 211
Proposal
In fall 2011 the University of South Carolina Aiken implemented their Quality Enhancement Plan titled “Critical Inquiry: Think DEEP”, enrolling all incoming freshmen in a one-credit hour critical inquiry course taught by faculty from across the academic disciplines. This program was designed to improve our students’ critical inquiry and information literacy skills and one of the primary learning outcomes was for students to demonstrate information literacy by gathering, evaluating, and using information effectively and responsibly. Information literacy instruction is approached as a partnership between the library faculty and the faculty teaching the CI courses. Students in the CI course spend one class day at the USCA library where they are introduced to collegiate level research. Information literacy skills are then reinforced throughout the rest of the semester in CI. The presenters will explain how information literacy instruction has evolved over the six years since the QEP was implemented, share results of information literacy assessments and student surveys, and present evidence of how student involvement in the CI program has changed overall library usage at USCA.
Short Description
The presenters will explain how information literacy instruction has evolved over the six years since a critical inquiry/ information literacy focused QEP was implemented, share results of information literacy assessments and student surveys, and present evidence of how student involvement in the CI program has changed overall library usage at USCA.
Session Goals
n/a
Keywords
Quality Enhancement Plan, Library, Information literacy, Assessment
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Vieyra, Michelle L. and Weaver, Kari D., "Information literacy for all: Looking back at six years of information literacy instruction in a required freshman course" (2017). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 41.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2017/2017/41
Information literacy for all: Looking back at six years of information literacy instruction in a required freshman course
Room 211
In fall 2011 the University of South Carolina Aiken implemented their Quality Enhancement Plan titled “Critical Inquiry: Think DEEP”, enrolling all incoming freshmen in a one-credit hour critical inquiry course taught by faculty from across the academic disciplines. This program was designed to improve our students’ critical inquiry and information literacy skills and one of the primary learning outcomes was for students to demonstrate information literacy by gathering, evaluating, and using information effectively and responsibly. Information literacy instruction is approached as a partnership between the library faculty and the faculty teaching the CI courses. Students in the CI course spend one class day at the USCA library where they are introduced to collegiate level research. Information literacy skills are then reinforced throughout the rest of the semester in CI. The presenters will explain how information literacy instruction has evolved over the six years since the QEP was implemented, share results of information literacy assessments and student surveys, and present evidence of how student involvement in the CI program has changed overall library usage at USCA.
