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How much do new students learn about information literacy in their first months of college? A comparison of nursing and teacher education students at a Norwegian university Library IL-courses Searching Evaluating and citing sources

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How much do new students learn about information literacy in their first months of college?

A comparison of nursing and teacher education students at a Norwegian university

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Ellen Nierenberg

Library IL-courses

  • Searching
  • «Evaluating and citing sources»

Cartoon by Chris Slane, 2013

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Two surveys

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Survey topics

  • Evaluating sources
  • Avoiding plagiarism
  • Citing sources
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Methods

  • Questback
  • Only those who completed survey 1 received survey 2
  • 12 (nearly identical) questions
  • Librarian present
  • Anonymous
  • 5-17 weeks between surveys
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Results from first survey

Nierenberg, E. & Fjeldbu, Ø. G. (2015). How much do first-year undergraduate students in Norway know about information literacy? Journal of Information Literacy, 9(1), 15-33.

evaluating sources

avoiding plagiarism

citing sources

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Selection of respondents

Campus Survey 1 Survey 2 Response rate Hamar (teacher ed.) 227 155 68% Elverum (nursing) 134 44 33% Rena (business adm.) 55 6 11% Evenstad (forestry/wildlife) 18 1 6% n=361 n=199

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3 research questions

  • 1. How much did nursing and teacher

education students learn about the 3 topics in their first months of higher education?

  • 2. How did their self-assessed skill levels

in these topics change?

  • 3. Which differences are there between

nursing and teacher education students?

Evaluating sources Avoiding plagiarism Citing sources

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Evaluating sources: Self-assessment

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% very poor poor average good very good

"How do you estimate your ability to critically evaluate sources of information?"

Survey 1 (n=361) Mean=3.52 Survey 2 (n=199) Mean=3.93 1 2 3 4 5

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Nursing vs. teacher education students

Those who estimated that they were good or very good at critically evaluating sources

Survey 1 Survey 2 Nursing students 42% 75% Teacher ed. students 42% 60%

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Why do nursing students have more self-confidence?

Possible explanations:

  • Parallel instruction in “evidence-based practice”
  • Health science librarians teach students that all articles found

in certain databases are reliable

  • (result of low response rates?)
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Evaluating sources: Learning outcome

  • Significant learning in 3 of 5 questions
  • No evidence of learning in the 2 other questions

§ identifying scholarly articles § recognizing when research should be cited

  • No difference in knowledge levels (despite differing self-

assessments)

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Avoiding plagiarism: Self-assessment

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% very poor poor average good very good

"How do you estimate your ability to avoid plagiarism when writing?"

Survey 1 (n=361) Mean=3.93 Survey 2 (n=199) Mean=4.03 1 2 3 4 5

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Nursing vs. teacher education students

Those who estimated that they were good or very good at avoiding plagiarism

Survey 1 Survey 2 Nursing students 69% 77% Teacher ed. students 60% 77%

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Avoiding plagiarism: Learning outcome

  • Significant learning in all questions – both formal and ethical

aspects of plagiarism

  • Overestimated abilities
  • Little difference in knowledge levels between nursing and

teacher education students

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Citing sources: Self-assessment

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% very poor poor average good very good

"How do you estimate your ability to cite sources in the correct manner?"

Survey 1 (n=361) Mean=3.24 Survey 2 (n=199) Mean=3.66 1 2 3 4 5

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Nursing vs. teacher education students

Those who estimated that they were good or very good at citing sources correctly

Survey 1 Survey 2 Nursing students 33% 57% Teacher ed. students 35% 50%

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Citing sources: Learning outcome

  • Significant learning in all questions
  • Nursing students cite sources more often than teacher
  • ed. students
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1: Learning outcome

Significant learning in all 3 topics

  • most – citing sources
  • least – evaluating sources
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2: Self-assessments

  • higher self-assessments in second survey in all 3 topics,

especially for evaluating and citing sources

  • most confident – avoiding plagiarism
  • least confident – citing sources
  • (overestimated their abilities to evaluate sources and avoid

plagiarism)

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3: Differences between nursing and teacher education students

  • nursing students cite sources more often
  • nursing students are more confident, especially in their ability to

evaluate sources

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Future research

  • analyze results from individual students over time
  • compare with students at other universities
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Thank you for your attention! Thank you for your attention!

ellen.nierenberg@hihm.no

Photo: Ellen Nierenberg