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Research is a verb: Exploring a new information literacy-embedded undergraduate research methods course
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This paper introduces a potential solution to widespread and longstanding concerns about undergraduates’ research, writing, and critical thinking skills: a new activity-based, discipline-specific research methods course. This paper details the course's design and explores the course's effectiveness by examining a variety of data collected within an action research framework, including student skills résumés and semi-structured post-course interviews. This paper highlights findings of particular interest to the library and information science audience. These include those relating to the students’ perception of information literacy, faculty-librarian collaboration, information skills résumés, the relationship between skills and confidence, and the students’ normative understanding of a “typical” undergraduate learning experience.
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- Date created
- 2010-05-01
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- Article (Draft / Submitted)
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- Attribution 3.0 International