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Integration of Information and Scientific Literacy: Promoting Literacy in Undergraduates
The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...
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To be competitive, contemporary engineers must be capable of both processing and communicating information effectively. Available research suggests that Indian students would be disadvantaged in information literacy in their language of instruction (English) compared to U.S. students because English is not Indian students' native language. Compared to U.S. students, Indian students (a) were pre...
متن کاملDeveloping academic information literacy for undergraduates through inquiry based learning
This paper describes the design and implementation of an information literacy module for first semester undergraduate students at Loughborough University. These students were taking Information Management and either Business Studies or Computing, or a degree in Publishing with English or Publishing with Ebusiness or Web Development and Design. The purpose of the module was to enable them to wor...
متن کاملDeveloping 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...
متن کاملInformation literacy in an inquiry course for first-year science undergraduates: a simplified 3C approach.
In this article, we describe a simplified approach to teach students to assess information obtained from diverse sources. Three broad categories (credibility, content, and currency; 3C) were used to evaluate information from textbooks, monographs, popular magazines, scholarly journals, and the World Wide Web. This 3C approach used in an inquiry course for freshmen in an undergraduate science pr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Information Processing and Management
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-7298,1347-1597
DOI: 10.1241/johokanri.47.38