North Carolina A & T State University has six core standards for Information Literacy:
I. Define the research problem
II. Construct effective search strategies
III. Locate and retrieve information
IV. Evaluate information
V. Organize, synthesize and communicate information
VI. Apply principles consistent with ethical and legal uses
Details may be found at this link:
http://www.library.ncat.edu/resources/infolit.html
The steps you've listed are very imperative for successful research and I'm glad to hear that A&T follows these standards. In my experience in graduate school, aligning my research with these standard have been critical in my reports, literature reviews, and most recently, special project proposal. Even in the the undergraduate technology course I teach, I've introduced the students to the concept of effective search strategies and search techniques. We even worked on some in-class activities on how to retrieve reliable information and appropriate sources when retrieving search results.
ReplyDeleteBeing information literate will benefit students as they migrate into the real world. We all utilize the skills emphasized at the core of information literacy whether we realize it or not. Being information literate does not mean that librarians become less relevant. On the contrary, researchers are able to acquire resources more pertinent to the information they are hoping to retrieve. With this pertinent information researchers can be more confident in the fact that the questions they will most likely have will provide greater understanding and more beneficial research pathways for their topics.
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