Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course

R Price; Karen Becker; L Clark; S Collins

doi:10.1080/03075071003725350

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Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course

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Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course

R Price, Karen Becker, L Clark and S Collins

Studies in Higher Education, Vol.36(6), pp.705-718

2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075071003725350

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collaborative work

information literacy

scholarship of teaching

student success

teaching and learning strategies

This article reports on a project to embed information literacy skills development in a first-year undergraduate business course at an Australian university. In accordance with prior research suggesting that first-year students are over-confident about their skills, the project used an optional online quiz to allow students to pre-test their information literacy skills. The students' lower than expected results subsequently encouraged greater skill development. However, not all students elected to undertake the first quiz. A final assessable information literacy quiz increased the levels of student engagement, suggesting that skill development activities need to be made assessable. We found that undertaking the information literacy quizzes resulted in a statistically significant improvement in students' information literacy skills from the pre-test to the post-test. This research therefore extends previous research by providing an effective means of delivering information literacy skill development to large cohorts of first-year students. © 2011 Copyright Society for Research into Higher Education.

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Title: Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course
Authors: R Price (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Karen Becker (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
L Clark (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
S Collins (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Studies in Higher Education, Vol.36(6), pp.705-718
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2011
DOI: 10.1080/03075071003725350
ISSN: 0307-5079
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; UniSC Moreton Bay; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450863002621
Output Type: Journal article

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