Enhancing the undergraduate engineering students' research skills

Credited Information Literacy Training Sessions for Graduate Students - Still Relevant after 18 years: A Case Study

“…Another study reports that providing IL instruction to doctoral students contributes to an increased confidence or efficacy in their search for information [18]. Similar effects have been observed with undergraduate students in engineering programs [19]. Several other studies have shown a correlation between participation in some format of IL instruction and student retention or re-enrollment rates in undergraduate programs [20,21].…”

Designing and Evaluating Co-curricular Information Literacy Sessions for Undergraduate Engineering Researchers

“…Research shows that library intervention with undergraduate research can improve retention [1], help students develop more profound research questions, and increase the complexity of their information searches [4]. For engineering students in particular, librarian intervention through IL instruction has been shown to improve research skills, the substance of research reports, understanding of subject material [5], and preparedness for advanced research topics [6].…”

“…To help address meeting this information literacy need within the specific context of undergraduate research, it has been suggested that integrating librarians into the instructional teams which support undergraduate researchers can help these students increase the development of their IL skills [3], [5]. Additionally, as a means of increasing library impact on campus, it has been recommended that libraries increase support to high-impact practices [7], [8].…”