Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Assessing students' information literacy skills can be difficult depending on the involvement of the librarian in a course. To overcome this, librarians created an assignment called the Paper Trail, where students wrote a short essay about their research process and reflected on what they would do differently. Through reviewing and grading these papers, librarians determined whether students understood the difference between the library catalog and article databases, evaluated the students' search terms to see if they used effective topic keywords and Boolean operators, and learned more on how the students reflected on their research process.
Recommended Citation
Nutefall, J. E. (2004). Research Journal: One method of information literacy assessment [Electronic version]. Research Strategies, 20(1-2), 89-98. doi:10.1016/j.resstr.2005.07.004
Comments
This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found at: doi:10.1016/j.resstr.2005.07.004