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A presentation delivered by Julie Arensdorf, Instruction Services Librarian at Loras College, during a Keystone Area Education Agency (AEA) Teacher Librarian Update in Elkader, Iowa on March 4, 2014, on behalf of the Iowa ACRL/K-12 Higher Education Committee.
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College & Career Readiness
Information Literacy Skills NeededBy College Bound Students
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135 RESPONDENTSK-16 School Librarian Survey
Mini-conference
Workshop offered at my local AEA
Webinar
Online tutorial
Other
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I would be interested in one of the following offered by a teacher librarian and an academic librarian
THE FOCUS
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Research SkillsCollege PreparednessCollaboration
THE OUTCOMES
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Develop pathways for building academic and teacher librarian collaborations and outreach projects
Understand the information literacy skills expected of students at the college level
THE END GOAL:
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ensure student success in the freshman year of college and beyond
Data
What do national and local assessmentstell us about student IL skills?
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THE NUMBERS | NATIONAL
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Project Information Literacy• The average college library had 19x as many
online library databases and 9x as many books as the average high school library
• 74% of students said they struggled with selecting keywords and formulating efficient search queries, and 57% found it difficult to sort through irrelevant results from online searches
THE NUMBERS | NATIONAL
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Project Information Literacy• Most freshmen said their research
competencies from high school were inadequate for college work
• Freshmen had written so few high school research papers that they had a very limited understanding of what the research process entails and how libraries could help
THE NUMBERS | NATIONAL
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2006 ICT Literacy Assessment:• 44% identified a research statement that
captured the demands of the assignment• 40% entered multiple search terms to
correctly narrow a web search• 35% were able to correctly narrow a
broad search
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2006 ICT Literacy Assessment:• 12% used points directly related to their
persuasive argument in a visual presentation
• >50% did not understand how to take large amounts of information and sort it for clarification purposes
THE NUMBERS | NATIONAL
THE NUMBERS | LOCAL
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Wartburg College 2009 IL Assessment:• 46% recognized that a personal web page is
not an appropriate scholarly source.• 49% identified the parts of a bibliographic
citation.• 37% did not recognize that writers include
citations when paraphrasing.
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Wartburg College 2009 IL Assessment:• 29% understood the Boolean terms AND,
OR, and NOT• 30% of students reported that they had
written 3 or fewer papers in high school that required citations
THE NUMBERS | LOCAL
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U of Dubuque TRAILS Test:• Average score percentages were between
61%-69%• Lower scores were found in the areas of
copyright, quoting, paraphrasing, and bias
THE NUMBERS | LOCAL
WEIGH IN:
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Given that we have all been teaching students these skills, how can we work together to bridge the
gap and improve the data?
What have you been doing?What have others been doing?
SampleAssignments
What is required of first-yearcollege students?
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Similar expectations Different expectations Known issues that would prevent a
student from being successful
FOR DISCUSSION
WEIGH IN:
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What are some of the key skills/themes within these
assignments?
Collaboration
What does a successfulpartnership look like?
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135 RESPONDENTSK-16 School Librarian Survey
Inquiry lessons
Research skillsCitations
Databases
Other
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College preparedness
Lesson plans for instruction
I would be interested in working with an academic librarian in the following ways:
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Grand View U + Des Moines Area HS• Help senior AP students prepare for college• Grand View librarians prepared
presentation, activities, handouts• Used college-level assignments
How would I find sources for this?What parts don’t I understand?
EXAMPLE
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Briar Cliff U + Sioux City HS• Video
of Sioux City high school student talking about his experience working with Briar Cliff staff
Loras College + Western Dubuque HS
Others??
EXAMPLE
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AP class research day
Collaborative English research paper
Research scavenger hunt
Future career research project
ACTIVITIES
THE END GOAL:
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ensure student success in the freshman year of college and beyond
Questions
How can we help you?
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CONTACT
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Julie Arensdorf Instruction Services Librarian Loras College
julie.arensdorf@loras.edu 563.588.7917
Thank you for sharingyour time with me!
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Educational Testing Service. (2006). 2006 ICT Literacy Assessment Preliminary
Findings.
Head, A. J. (December 4, 2013). Learning the ropes: How freshmen conduct course research once they enter college.
Project Information Literacy Research Report. University of Washington Information School.
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