Instructional interventions across the inquiry process
Donham J.; Steele M.
2008
College and Undergraduate Libraries
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10.1080/10691310802046686
Information literacy aims to develop in students the necessary skills, knowledge, and dispositions to use information to solve problems, make decisions, and generate new knowledge. The literature is replete with examples of guiding students in accessing and evaluating information sources. Less prevalent is processing informationthe heart of the inquiry. Analysis, inference, and synthesis are critical thinking skills that take information literacy beyond a bibliographic task. In this liberal arts college setting, librarians team with consultants in quantitative reasoning, writing, and presentation technologies to deliver an information literacy program that supports not only the search, but also the analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and presentation of findings and insights.
Collaboration; Critical thinking; Information literacy; Quantitative reasoning; Writing across the curriculum
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