Event Title
Poster: Just Enough of a Good Thing: Support for the Long-Term Efficacy of One-Shot Library Instruction
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
15-5-2013 4:00 PM
End Time
15-5-2013 5:00 PM
Description
An experimental paradigm was used to measure website attributions as one way of determining the efficacy of the “one-shot” library session. Results indicated support for single session information literacy instruction. Participants exposed to a librarian classroom visit reported that they would be significantly more likely to have used library databases, checked out a book, asked a librarian for help, and to predict that they would ask a librarian for help at a later time. Results also indicated that students who reported having a librarian visit may have engaged in more systematic or complex processing to evaluate websites in that they considered more attributes and took less time to make better judgments about the quality of sources.
Poster: Just Enough of a Good Thing: Support for the Long-Term Efficacy of One-Shot Library Instruction
Moakley Atrium
An experimental paradigm was used to measure website attributions as one way of determining the efficacy of the “one-shot” library session. Results indicated support for single session information literacy instruction. Participants exposed to a librarian classroom visit reported that they would be significantly more likely to have used library databases, checked out a book, asked a librarian for help, and to predict that they would ask a librarian for help at a later time. Results also indicated that students who reported having a librarian visit may have engaged in more systematic or complex processing to evaluate websites in that they considered more attributes and took less time to make better judgments about the quality of sources.