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Suggested Next <strong>St</strong>eps:1. Include classroom faculty from each of the threeschools where our undergraduate students arelocated on the Information Competency TaskForce. Administrative support for facultyinvolvement in the ICTF is needed.2. Classroom faculty and librarians need tocollaborate prior to the semester’s beginning,when learning outcomes and course activitiesare being established.3. Librarians, classroom faculty, department chairs,and deans need to work together to develop avertically-integrated plan that maps desiredinformation literacy learning outcomes toappropriate course levels within each major.So we have the data. Now what can we do to improve our students’ informationcompetency skills?We have scheduled a focus group of about 10 faculty for next month to discusssome of these findings and to hear what their recommendations are. We plan toask these faculty to suggest faculty members to serve on the ICTF. Given thedistribution of our students, this might include one faculty from the BGSB, onefrom SET, and two from HSS.Librarians and teaching faculty need to cooperate in developing assignmentsthat challenge students to gain skills in acquiring information, but also requiresstudents to critically analyze and synthesize information.Currently, students’ exposure to research methods instruction is “hit and miss”so that some students in a major are exposed to similar instruction methods inusing the library more than once while other students never receive any formalinstruction.36
SourcesResearch Practices Survey, Fall 2006.http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/the_institute/upcoming_events/spring_2008/assessing_information_literacy_and_fluency_in_the_context_of_the_liberal_arts_campus/research_practices_surveyCarolyn Sanford, Jo Beld, and Nancy Millichap, March 30,2007. “Crossing Boundaries: Collaborating to AssessInformation Literacy.” Powerpoint presentation given at2007 Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)Conference.http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/about/infolit/fyillaa/37
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