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Assessment of a Library Learning Theory by Measuring Library Skills of Students Completing an Online Library Instruction Tutorial

Description: This study is designed to reveal whether students acquire the domains and levels of library skills discussed in a learning library skills theory after participating in an online library instruction tutorial. The acquisition of the library skills is demonstrated through a review of the scores on online tutorial quizzes, responses to a library skills questionnaire, and bibliographies of course research papers. Additional areas to be studied are the characteristics of the participants enrolled in … more
Date: May 2007
Creator: Watson, Dana L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Constructing Transformative Experiences Through Problem Posing in a High School English Research Project.

Description: This dissertation chronicles my search to engage high school English students in inquiry as part of a formal research process. The perspective of critical literacy theory is used to describe the four phases of the problem posing process in shaping student research and action. Grounded in Freire's approach and consistent with Dewey and others who advocate inquiry, action and relevance, Wink's process is built into the instructional plan described in this study. Because of the real-life context o… more
Date: May 2009
Creator: Revelle, Carol L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Student Information Gathering: Examining What Happens when School Librarians Attempt to Convey Online Information Search Strategies to Meet Information Needs

Description: There is a growing expectation that school librarians function within their job descriptions beyond the role of reading promoter and resource manager. With college and career readiness standards, technology use and digital learning standards and information literacy standards now in place for student learning expectations, it is vital that students have opportunities to acquire, develop and practice such skills for future success in the global market economy. For students to receive such opport… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Chetzron, Jackie B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Correlation between Information Literacy and Critical Thinking of College Students: An Exploratory Study

Description: This exploratory, mixed-methods study investigated the relationship between information literacy and critical thinking. The research question guiding the first portion of the study was: How do information literacy and critical thinking relate in undergraduate students conducting academic research? Using two standardized assessments, the study assessed the information literacy and critical thinking skills of a small population of college students from a private, university in Texas. The correlat… more
Date: May 2018
Creator: McMullin, Shelly Lynne
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The Effect of Information Literacy Instruction on Library Anxiety Among International Students

Description: This study explored what effect information literacy instruction (ILI) may have on both a generalized anxiety state and library anxiety specifically. The population studied was international students using resources in a community college. Library anxiety among international students begins with certain barriers that cause anxiety (i.e., language/communication barriers, adjusting to a new education/library system and general cultural adjustments). Library Anxiety is common among college student… more
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Date: May 2004
Creator: Battle, Joel C.
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Teaching Poe in the Context of the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy

Description: Presented at the 2017 American Literature Association, in a session organized by the Poe Studies Association. This presentation discusses how the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy can be used as a pedagogical basis for teaching the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, John Edward
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Political Science Curriculum Map

Description: This dataset provides a data analysis of how student learning objective from PSCI syllabi map to threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016) and the AAC&U Information Literacy Value Rubric (2013). The data includes non-core course for courses offered from the Fall 2017 semester to the Spring 2020 semester. This data analysis is conducted every three years. This curriculum map excludes core course previously as they were examined in the UNT Lib… more
Date: May 11, 2020
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Dataset
Partner: UNT Libraries
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