Paper Trail: One Method of Information Literacy Assessment

Citeable URL: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/1n79h528m

Descriptions

Attribute Name	Values
Creator	Nutefall, Jennifer E.
Abstract	Assessing students' information literacy skills can be difficult depending on the involvement of the librarian in a course. To overcome this, librarians created an assignment called the Paper Trail, where students wrote a short essay about their research process and reflected on what they would do differently. Through reviewing and grading these papers, librarians determined whether students understood the difference between the library catalog and article databases, evaluated the students' search terms to see if they used effective topic keywords and Boolean operators, and learned more on how the students reflected on their research process. Keywords: assessment, research process, information literacy
Resource Type	Article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resstr.2005.07.004
Date Available	2011-11-23T23:53:21+00:00
Date Issued	2004
Citation	Nutefall, J. E. (2004). Research Journal: One method of information literacy assessment [Electronic version]. Research Strategies, 20(1-2), 89-98. doi:10.1016/j.resstr.2005.07.004
Journal Title	Research Strategies
Journal Volume	20
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Libraries
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/25768