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Information literacy : a review of the research : a guide for practitioners and researchers
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- Creator
- David V. Loertscher, Blanche Woolls
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- English
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- Second edition
- San Jose, CA : Hi Willow Research and Pub., 2002
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- vi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- OCLC
- ocm48433040
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 151-165) and indexes.
- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Chapter one: Introduction to information literacy -- Chapter two: Stages of the research process: Questions and wonders -- Finds and sorts -- Consumes and absorbs -- Thinks and creates -- Summarizes and concludes -- Communicates -- Reflects on process and product -- Chapter three: Issues in information literacy: Information overload -- Attitudes and motivation -- Working with specific groups of students -- Conflict between behaviorist and constructivist approaches -- Standards movement and inquiry -- Adult expertise and information literacy -- Will teachers teach information literacy? -- Consuming and absorbing what? -- Academic achievement and information literacy -- Cut and clip mentality: or, the ethical use of information -- Chapter four: promising techniques: Cooperative learning -- Cultivating habits of mind -- Constructivist strategies -- Integration of information skills into content instruction -- Helping students and teachers develop their own -- Research model -- Collaborating with the I-search process -- Using the schedule and time to advantage -- Building a collaborative planning role -- Teaching text structure -- Concept mapping -- Pacing learners through the research process -- Providing a high-quality information environment -- Doing your own action research -- Principal's role in information literacy -- Chapter five: Good ideas and resources for keeping current: Keeping current -- Helps for teachers and library media specialists -- Helps for parents -- Resources for steps of the research process for young people -- Chapter six: For the researcher: Models of information literacy-a timeline -- Research reviews -- Related models and applications -- Index to citations -- Subject index