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Scaffolding Course Research Assignments to Incorporate Information Literacy Skill Development: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Project
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Nadine
dc.contributor.authorMcAuslan, Pam
dc.contributor.authorDraus, Paul
dc.contributor.authorClark-Foos, Arlo
dc.contributor.authorBeauchesne, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-31T18:57:37Z
dc.date.available2019-07-31T18:57:37Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-31
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150196
dc.descriptionPresentation from the Workshop for Information Literacy Use (WILU) 2016 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Embedding librarians and systematic, multiple Information Literacy (IL) sessions into courses is gaining popularity. However, this is time-intensive for both faculty and librarians; faculty have to find time in their courses for multiple IL sessions, and librarians have to find time to teach all of these sessions across the curriculum. How can we embed librarian expertise and IL skill development into courses in a more sustainable way? This presentation will describe a cross-disciplinary partnership between the Behavioral Sciences librarian and four faculty in Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn on a pilot project which addresses this challenge. This pilot project began because faculty were finding that many of the students in their courses seemed to be getting overwhelmed by their research papers and projects, which was reflected in poor performance on these assignments. The pilot project team took an assignment scaffolding approach to address these issues. Assignment scaffolding involves taking complex assignments, such as research papers and projects, and breaking them down into smaller components. The pilot project team systematically restructured the research papers and projects in their courses to create scaffolded assignments reflecting the steps of the research process. IL skill development was integrated into these graded assignments, which built towards final research papers and projects. These scaffolded assignments were then piloted in six courses across Behavioral Sciences disciplines, with assessments to measure the overall effectiveness of this pilot project. This presentation walks through the process of restructuring and rewriting research papers and projects to incorporate IL skill development in a systematic, meaningful way. This presentation also discusses the benefits of adopting the assignment scaffolding method to integrate librarian expertise and systematic IL skill development into a course and across the curriculum, as well as the sustainability of this method.en_US
dc.description.abstractPresentation from the Workshop for Information Literacy Use (WILU) 2016 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectEmbedded Librarianshipen_US
dc.subjectScaffolded Assignmentsen_US
dc.subjectAssignment Designen_US
dc.subjectFaculty Collaborationen_US
dc.subjectInformation Literacyen_US
dc.titleScaffolding Course Research Assignments to Incorporate Information Literacy Skill Development: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Projecten_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelInformation Science
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.contributor.affiliationumMardigian Library, University of Michigan-Dearbornen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumBehavioral Sciences Program, University of Michigan-Dearbornen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusDearbornen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/150196/1/Anderson, Nadine - Scaffolding Course Research Assignments to Incorporate Information Literacy Skill Development - An Interdisciplinary Pilot Project .pdf
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5862-4938en_US
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of Anderson, Nadine - Scaffolding Course Research Assignments to Incorporate Information Literacy Skill Development - An Interdisciplinary Pilot Project .pdf : Presentation Slides
dc.identifier.name-orcidAnderson, Nadine; 0000-0002-5862-4938en_US
dc.owningcollnameMardigian Library (UM-Dearborn)


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