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College & Career Readiness Information Literacy Skills Needed By College Bound Students IL

College & Career Readiness: Information Literacy Skills Needed By College Bound Students

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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

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THE FOCUS

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Research SkillsCollege PreparednessCollaboration

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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

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THE END GOAL:

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ensure student success in the freshman year of college and beyond

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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WEIGH IN:

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What are some of the key skills/themes within these

assignments?

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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

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THE END GOAL:

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ensure student success in the freshman year of college and beyond

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Questions

How can we help you?

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CONTACT

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Julie Arensdorf Instruction Services Librarian Loras College

[email protected] 563.588.7917

Thank you for sharingyour time with me!