Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction
This study details the design of instruction sessions for undergraduate students that intended to encourage critical source evaluation and the questioning of established authorities, and appraises these instructional aims through a thematic analysis of 148 artifacts containing student responses to g...
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Communications in Information Literacy
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| description | This study details the design of instruction sessions for undergraduate students that intended to encourage critical source evaluation and the questioning of established authorities, and appraises these instructional aims through a thematic analysis of 148 artifacts containing student responses to group and individual activities. The authors found a widespread reliance on traditional indicators of academic and scholarly authority, though some students expressed more personal or complex understandings of source evaluation, trustworthiness, and authorship. Based on the findings, recommendations are made for academic librarians interested in promoting learners' senses of agency and authority. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b78f48861d16425f9f4c3eda569f292f2022-12-22T00:48:08ZengCommunications in Information LiteracyCommunications in Information Literacy1933-59542017-07-011119512110.15760/comminfolit.2017.11.1.37Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy InstructionKatelyn Angell0Eamon Tewell1Long Island University, BrooklynLong Island University, BrooklynThis study details the design of instruction sessions for undergraduate students that intended to encourage critical source evaluation and the questioning of established authorities, and appraises these instructional aims through a thematic analysis of 148 artifacts containing student responses to group and individual activities. The authors found a widespread reliance on traditional indicators of academic and scholarly authority, though some students expressed more personal or complex understandings of source evaluation, trustworthiness, and authorship. Based on the findings, recommendations are made for academic librarians interested in promoting learners' senses of agency and authority.http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/22327information literacy instruction; critical information literacy; authority; resource evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Katelyn Angell Eamon Tewell Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction Communications in Information Literacy information literacy instruction; critical information literacy; authority; resource evaluation |
| title | Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction |
| title_full | Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction |
| title_fullStr | Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction |
| title_short | Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction |
| title_sort | teaching and un teaching source evaluation questioning authority in information literacy instruction |
| topic | information literacy instruction; critical information literacy; authority; resource evaluation |
| url | http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/22327 |
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