Integrating civic scientific literacy skills in a Biochemistry course

Open access and civic scientific information literacy

Introduction: We examine how residents/citizens of The Netherlands perceive Open Access to acquire preliminary insight into the role it might play in cultivating civic scientific literacy. Open Access refers to scientific/scholarly research literature available on the Web to scholars and the general public in free online journals and institutional repositories. Method: Four focus group sessions...

Integrating Computer Literacy and Communication Skills

Integrating Academic Literacy Skills in an Elective Intermediate Accounting Subject

This paper describes a project that sought to integrate academic literacy skills into an elective intermediate accounting subject. It offers a strategy whereby students are set academic reading and writing tasks through a series of graded published articles, written by faculty members, which were accompanied by questions and other activities to help them understand the text and analyse the acco...

Integrating Information Literacy into the Virtual University: A Course Model

The virtual university environment provides librarians with new opportunities to contribute to the educational process. Building on the success of team-teaching a traditional liberal arts core course with composition and communications faculty, librarians and a communications professor worked together to integrate the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Compe...

Developing a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS): Measuring Undergraduates’ Evaluation of Scientific Information and Arguments

Life sciences faculty agree that developing scientific literacy is an integral part of undergraduate education and report that they teach these skills. However, few measures of scientific literacy are available to assess students' proficiency in using scientific literacy skills to solve scenarios in and beyond the undergraduate biology classroom. In this paper, we describe the development, vali...