Separating Wheat from Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy

Jacobson, Trudi; Mark, Beth

doi:10.1353/jge.2000.0029

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“…It was clear following the assessment workshop that information literacy, or lack thereof, lay at the heart of all of the aforementioned issues surrounding lackluster speech presentations. Considering that the oral communication course is primarily taken by first year students, and as Jacobson and Mark (2000) argue first year students are not often information literate which is essential to the nature of a public speaking course, these conclusions are not surprising. Additionally, because this course is intended for first year students the AASL standards serve as a natural transition from the high school environment and reinforce skills and terminology that are more likely to be accessible to the first year student.…”

Section: Student Performance As An Impetus For Changementioning

confidence: 98%

Embedded Information Literacy in the Basic Oral Communication Course: From Conception Through Assessment

Weaver

Pier

2010

Public Services Quarterly

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Section: Student Performance As An Impetus For Changementioning

confidence: 98%

Embedded Information Literacy in the Basic Oral Communication Course: From Conception Through Assessment

Weaver

Pier

2010

Public Services Quarterly

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“…Information literacy instruction is not only relevant but also beneficial to students. Jacobson and Mark (2000) affirmed that the development of information literacy does not only facilitate engagement with effective decision-making, problem-solving, and research, but also enables medical students to take responsibility for continued learning in areas of personal or professional interest. Information literacy programmes, without doubt, equip students with the skills to find, evaluate, and manage the information they need for their academic work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other studies exhibit how information literacy instruction can help students to appropriately use digital resources to succeed in their academic endeavors. The need for effective instruction in information literacy is stressed among others (Jacobson & Mark, 2000). Not only, they said, will instruction of this type prepare the students for college and career success, but also for becoming contributing members of society.…”

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“…Information literacy does not only facilitate engagement with effective decision-making, problem-solving, and research, but also enables the learner to take responsibility for continued learning in areas of personal or professional interest. It is through the effective instruction of information literacy skills that the learner is prepared for college and career success in order to contribute to society (Jacobson & Mark, 2000). It is thus argued that information literacy instruction can help medical students with tools to approach medical literature in an organized and efficient manner to locate, evaluate, and use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.…”

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Improving the Literacy of Medical Students: A Collective Knowledge Management Effort by the University for Development Studies Medical School in Ghana and the Community Surrounding the University

Alu¹,

Bardy²,

Dadzie³

2017

UCER-B

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The purpose of the study is to show how a collective knowledge management effort was undertaken in a low-tech environment yields outcomes that benefit all participants of the effort-students and staff of a medical school, the medical profession in the community, paramedics, and the community at large. It also demonstrates that acquainting students with knowledge management skills early and improving their information literacy. If they can effectively manage their knowledge resources in close connection with all members of the society around their school, the benefits will be improving academic efficiency, diagnostic effectiveness, and feedback from medical institutions and patients. The study descends from the Medical Library Association's definition of health information literacy. It uses a survey at the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale, Ghana, to examine the information and literacy skills of its medical students. Also, it explores the level of awareness of the various databases to which the university library is subscribed, the benefits of information literacy skills, and the challenges that students face in identifying and using information sources. From there, the paper explores avenues for improving the situation of the students of which the optimal is conjoining resources in and outside the medical school. Linking faculty, students, and medical professionals in the university's local environment in a collective endeavour for enhancing the literacy skills proper can result in a shared inventory of tools that help to discriminate, which information is needed and which is redundant. From this foundation, students would develop abilities to understand knowledge management and know how to apply it in their specific field of professionalization. The sample was selected from doctoral students in a single institution in the field of education. Also, the sample was self-selected and relatively small. There is a caveat, therefore, for generalizing the findings to other doctoral student populations. This study is useful to health administrators and faculty members, because issues concerning the importance of information literacy skills do not only apply to UDS, Tamale, but to other medical institutions in Africa as well. The study provides university libraries with reliable data on the need for and the effectiveness of information literacy instruction and it enables the librarians to strategize how to improve the instructions they provide. The medical profession highly depends on the adequacy of diagnosis and therapy selection, and for this, any medical professional must be capable to access and use state of the art information sources. There are only a few studies around the topic of medical literacy and almost none for developing countries. But the results of the other studies corroborate the findings of this paper to a great extent.

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“…Consequently, many universities and colleges in Canada are in favor and/or offer online tours and tutorials in different formats, even though opinions about their effectiveness diverge to a great extent (e.g. Churkovich and Oughtred, 2002;Adler, 2003;Jacobson and Mark, 2000).…”

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The role of the library in the first college year: the Canadian perspective

Trescases

2008

Reference Services Review

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Purpose -The aims of this paper is to provide an overview on information literacy/library programs for first-year students in Canadian universities and colleges. Design/methodology/approach -The paper introduces and discusses periodical articles, monographs and up-to-date research on the subject. It presents anecdotal evidence gained from web site searches of 169 Canadian post-secondary institutions complemented by personal communications from library and student services staff. Findings -The study provides information about several types of library services for first-year students currently in use in Canadian academic libraries. Originality/value -There is no evidence of research in the area of library services for first-year college and university students in Canada. This paper complements research on information literacy/library programs offered through academic libraries in other countries by focusing solely on first-year student initiatives in Canadian academic libraries.

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Separating Wheat from Chaff: Helping First-Year Students Become Information Savvy

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Embedded Information Literacy in the Basic Oral Communication Course: From Conception Through Assessment

Embedded Information Literacy in the Basic Oral Communication Course: From Conception Through Assessment

Improving the Literacy of Medical Students: A Collective Knowledge Management Effort by the University for Development Studies Medical School in Ghana and the Community Surrounding the University

The role of the library in the first college year: the Canadian perspective

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