Research is a verb: Exploring a new information literacy-embedded undergraduate research methods course

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Polkinghorne, Sarah
  • Wilton, Shauna

• 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.

• Date created

  2010-05-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Research methods instruction
  • Faculty-librarian collaboration
  • Undergraduate students
  • Course design
  • Information literacy

• Type of Item

  Article (Draft / Submitted)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3542JB0N

• License

  Attribution 3.0 International