Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Evaluation of information literacy questions

An interesting document on the Higher Education Academy site:
Stubbings, R. and V. Franklin (2006) Overview of the HEA Development Fund project: Critical evaluation of information literacy questions used to support the Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies (PIRES). Information and Computer Science Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy.

"Loughborough University Library and the Department of Politics International Relations & European Studies (PIRES) wished to enhance second year student information literacy skills, so that they were able to produce good quality research dissertations. To achieve this, information literacy skills were embedded into the EUB608: Research Methods module and was delivered via the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), called Learn. The student understanding of the principles of information searching was assessed using computer aided assessment (CAA)." http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/
development-fund/final_reports/65ov_rstubbingsoverview.pdf
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Photo by Sheila Webber: Near Higham Hall, Lake District, Jan 2007, lightly photoshopped.

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