Learning More About How They Think: Information Literacy Instruction in a Campus-Wide Critical Thinking Project

Being Like Both: Library Instruction Methods that Outshine the One-Shot

“…They maintain that few of the students they work with know what resources an academic library offers, much less how to use them effectively. This observation is consistent with findings by Johnson, Lindsay, and Walter (2008), who lament students' inability to ''thoroughly investigate library resources to provide a quality framework for their scholarly writing'' (p. 248). In many library instructional sessions at Marshall, when the question, ''Do you know how to use the library catalog to find a book?''…”

“…In another study on problem-based learning (PBL) and its effectiveness in facilitating information literacy, Kenney (2007) envisions the library instructor as a guide equipped with carefully designed research problems that foster active student collaboration and critical thinking. Johnson, Lindsay, and Walter (2008) find similar links between critical thinking and information literacy at Washington State University but note a higher degree of collaboration between their instructors and librarians, who work together to assist freshmen students with a semester-long research project.…”

“…M. Bean and S. N. Thomas student comes up short (p. 16). One reason for this problem is noted by Johnson, Lindsay, and Walter (2008), who acknowledge that ''classroom faculty often do not have time in their syllabi to devote to a library session or they believe that students become information literate in another class'' (p. 248). In Jacobs and Jacobs's (2008) model, the solution to this problem is to it create an ongoing dialogue between librarians and faculty so that library instruction can be based on specific course objectives and applied to students' future research situations (p. 73).…”

“…When defining this most crucial of academic skills, researchers refer to widely accepted standards specified by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), which are discussed later in more detail (Gandhi, 2004;Gullikson, 2006;Jacobs & Jacobs, 2008;Johnson, Lindsay, & Walter, 2008;Kenney, 2007). The responsibilities of the librarian, however, vary considerably from study to study.…”

Nurses Information Appraisal Within the Clinical Setting

“…The link between information literacy and critical thinking has been documented in the literature (Brevik, 1991;Fox, Richter, &White, 1996). Critical thinking, like information literacy, involves formulating a precise and clear question, gathering and accessing information, and arriving at reasonable conclusions that can be measured against criteria and standards (Johnson, Lindsay, & Walter, 2008). Though nursing education has emphasized critical thinking skills, information literacy skills have received little attention (Verhey, 1999) and even less emphasis has been placed on each phase of the information literacy process.…”