Exercising Research Skills: An Information Literacy Boot Camp for Religious Studies Graduate Assistants

Shreffler, Stephanie; Gauder, Heidi

doi:10.1080/10477845.2018.1467821

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“…The literacy test consisted of questions about various forms of choice that refer to 32 literacy abilities. The indicator components of the literacy test included (a) choosing various sources of references, (b) considering the importance of copyright issue, (c) understanding research terminologies, (d) writing scientific articles systematically, (e) analyzing information from books, (f) analyzing information on the internet, (g) exploring for information on the internet, (h) gaining skills for searching information, (i) determining types of information, and (j) prioritizing selected information (Cicek, Cankaya, Ucer, & Cetin, 2017;Çoklar, Yaman, & Yurdakul, 2017;Nwosu, Obiamalu, & Udem, 2015;Shao & Purpur, 2016;Saunders, 2018;Shreffler & Gauder, 2018).…”

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Challenges and Expectations towards Information Literacy Skills: Voices from Teachers’ Training of Scientific Writing

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Ibrohim

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This research was aiming at analyzing information literacy skills (ILS) among teachers, the challenges of mastering ILS, and the expected ILS training. The study involved 58 secondary school teachers in East Java, Indonesia. The questionnaire and the information literacy test were administered after the training to capture the data. The data were then descriptively analyzed with NVivo 12 and Minitab 16 Windows. The results have shown that more than half of all participants had scores below the standard of 70. The other findings indicated that the teachers were good at determining types of information and understanding research terminologies. However, they were still not successfully extracting what was important in mastering ILS determined by eight other indicators. To employ ILS, teachers should deal with the challenges, such as time management, motivation, and knowledge of writing. To sum up, the teachers still need more training sessions which focus on the continuity of making scientific articles for professional development. This training can even build some foundation to improve ILS to teachers.

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