Creating and Assessing an Information Literacy Component in an Undergraduate Specialized Science Class Academic Article

abstract

• , Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2017 Jenni Simonsen, Laura Sare, and Sarah Bankston. This study addresses the information literacy needs of undergraduate forensic science students to become lifelong learners throughout their careers. Researchers designed a one-credit hour course combining information literacy instruction with forensic science professional seminars. Two separate cohorts were evaluated. The majority of students (75 percent) showed improvement in information literacy skill levels by the end of the course. Students initially scoring lower than the cohort average on a pretest appeared to gain the greatest benefit. Results suggest that this type of instruction could serve as a baseline for undergraduate science programs seeking to improve how students utilize scientific and legal information.

authors

• Bankston, Sarah
• Sare, Laura

published proceedings

• Science & Technology Libraries

author list (cited authors)

• Simonsen, J., Sare, L., & Bankston, S.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Simonsen, Jenni||Sare, Laura||Bankston, Sarah

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Science and Technology Libraries  Journal

keywords

• 4 Quality Education
• Genetics
• Human Genome

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/0194262x.2017.1320261

start page

• 200

end page

• 218

volume

• 36

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2017.1320261

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education