Evaluating the Impact of Information Literacy in Higher Education: Progress and Prospects
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The past few years have seen a growing interest by library staff in information literacy interventions focussed on students and, more recently, on postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. This paper reviews progress to date in evaluating the impact of information literacy work in Higher Education in the UK. It also describes a collaborative UK national initiative in which various university library teams engaged in evaluating information literacy. Finally it proposes a research design for further evaluation work in higher education, combining a new student-focussed framework for information literacy development (already field-tested) and application of concept mapping as a diagnostic tool.
© 2008 by K. G. Saur Verlag, An Imprint of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Federal Republic of Germany
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Articles in the same Issue
- Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) – an Introduction
- From Information to Meaning: Confronting Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
- Information Mastering, Perceived Health and Societal Status: An Empirical Study of the Finnish Population
- What Matters? Shaping Meaningful Learning through Teaching Information Literacy
- Information Practices in Elementary School
- Evaluating the Impact of Information Literacy in Higher Education: Progress and Prospects
- Community Information Literacy: Developing an Australian Research Agenda
- Sense-Making and Synchronicity: Information-Seeking Behaviors of Millennials and Baby Boomers
