Developing research & communication skills guidelines for information literacy in the curriculum Developing research and communication skills Middle States Commission on Higher Education. - Philadelphia, Pa. Middle States Commission on Higher Education c2003. - vi, 112 p. charts 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and appendices.

Why focus on information literacy? -- Planning for information literacy: institutional goals, curricular design, and the campus context -- Learning goals and teaching strategies for information literacy: -- Preparing students for an information literacy experience -- Teaching students to find and evaluate sources -- Teaching students to evaluate and understand content -- Producing new information -- Information literacy assessment: A Reflective, Integrative, and Iterative process, Why assess information literacy?, Taking inventory; Institutional constraints; Developing or refining a plan for information literacy assessment; and measuring effectiveness -- Improving teaching and learning: Analyzing the information, Improving the curriculum, and Communicating assessment information -- Sustaining the momentum of information literacy: an overview -- References -- Criteria for information literacy competency (New Jersey City University: Master's I) -- Entry-level course on the research aspects of information literacy (Marist College: Master's I) -- Distributed approach to information literacy at a two-year Institution (Nassau Community College: Associate's) -- Distributed approach to information literacy in a lower-level economics course (Mercy College: Baccalaureate-Liberal Arts) -- Distributed approach to information literacy in an upper-level course on information science and policy (University at Albany, State University of New York: Doctoral/Research-Extensive) -- Distributed approach to information literacy in upper-level biology course (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia: Specialized). PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3 PHASE 4 Appendices: -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.


Universities and colleges--Communication systems--Methodology.
Research Design--standards.
Communication--Methodology.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher--Effect of technological innovations on.
Functional literacy
Universities and colleges--Curricula.
Universities and colleges--Research--Methodology.

LB2361.M62 / D48 2003

028.7 / M6275d