Title: Online Information Competence Tutorials: Influencing Change in Traditional Library Classrooms
1Online Information Competence Tutorials
Influencing Change in Traditional Library
Classrooms
- Pamela JacksonSan José State University Library
- MERLOT International ConferenceAugust 3 - 6,
2004Costa Mesa, CA
2Abstract
- Online library tutorials allow students to learn
important information competence skills at their
own pace outside of traditional class time.
Online tutorials provide a common foundation
among students, and allow librarians to make
effective use of classroom time with students
during what is usually a one-hour, one-shot
library instruction session.
3Benefits of Online Library Tutorials
- Students learn information competence skills at
their own pace, outside of physical classrooms
and traditional class time. - Students gain a common foundation of knowledge
before the in-person library instruction session. - Librarians can make more of the one-hour,
one-shot in-person library instruction session.
4Concepts Taught via Information Competence
Tutorials
- General orientation to the librarys physical and
online environments - Defining a research topic selecting search terms
- Selecting, searching for and evaluating
information - Identifying popular and scholarly literature
- Understanding and recognizing primary research
- Plagiarism
5Measuring Student Learning
- Pre-tests measure student knowledge before taking
the tutorial. - Quizzes at the end of each module or tutorial
test students knowledge after completing the
tutorial. - Quiz data can be used to make the most of the
in-person library instruction session.
6Quizzes and Queries
- Students register to take a tutorial.
- Quiz scores are automatically emailed to the
student upon completion. - Results are stored in a local database.
- Queries allow us to see quiz scores by class,
student, semester (includes class averages and
scores by question).
7Query Generator
8SJSU Tutorial Examples
- Library Basics This general orientation to
library collections and services reduces the
amount of in-person teaching time spent on the
basics. - Plagiarism Teaches students about plagiarism,
paraphrasing and citing sources. - InfoPower Teaches students to select, search
for, and evaluate information. - Stairway to Success Marketed to admitted SJSU
students, this tutorial teaches students to
select, search for, and evaluate information. - Health 100w Created for the Health Sciences
majors, this tutorial teaches students how to
identify primary research and to search for
information in their field. More major-specific
tutorials are underway in business, engineering,
math, and computer science. - Teen Tutorial In consultation with local area
teens and teachers, academic and public
librarians are collaborating to create a teen
information competence tutorial.
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14The Creation Process Plagiarism The Crime of
Intellectual Kidnapping
15Idea Sparked via Collaboration with Classroom
Faculty
- "Last spring, in order to address the issue of
plagiarism, we submitted course assignments to
turnitin.com and were astounded to discover that
between sixty-three to seventy-five percent of
our students plagiarized. This tutorial has
contributed significantly to help meet the
formidable challenge of plagiarism." - --Debra Caires-Mullens and June Sheldon
- Computer Science Instructors
16Librarys Role in Plagiarism InstructionWhy
should the library teach students about
plagiarism?
- Demonstrates the librarys commitment to
important campus issues. - Campus communities frequently look to librarians
to provide this instruction. - ACRLs Information Literacy Competency Standards
for Higher Education call for student
demonstration in the legal and ethical use of
information.
17Tutorial Highlights
- Pre-Test and Graded Quiz
- Plagiarism Definitions and Examples
- Academic Dishonesty Policies
- Plagiarism Detection Services
- Paraphrasing
- Importance of Citing Sources
- Citation Styles
18Five Person Team
- One Librarian responsible for overall direction
of the tutorial, and creating the content and
quiz. - One Information Literacy Competence Specialist
responsible for oversight of the programming and
graphics team collaborates with librarian on
overall direction. - One Programmer responsible for HTML, PHP, and
back-end quiz databases and queries. - Two Graphic Artists/Designers responsible for the
artwork, Flash animations, and overall look of
the tutorial.
19TimelineTutorial not part of Librarians regular
workload (i.e. no release or assigned time)
- June 2002 Idea sparked through a conversation
between classroom faculty and the Librarian. - Fall 2002 Librarian began researching available
online plagiarism resources. While there were
many valuable websites, we did not find tutorials
that measure student learning. - Spring 2003 Librarian began writing the content
and creating the quiz. - Late Spring 2003/Summer 2003 Content and quiz
completed. Programmer and Graphic Artists begin
illustrating, and creating the back-end quiz
database and registration page.
20- Late Summer 2003 Tutorial is tested in various
web browsers for glitches and ADA compliance. - Fall 2003 Tutorial is launched one week before
the fall semester begins. - Late Fall 2003 Graphic Artist begins work on an
animated Flash version. - Spring 2004 Librarian begins writing a new quiz
that better adheres to test writing standards.
Team decides to make the tutorial available as a
free download via an Open Publication License as
soon as the Flash version and new quizzes are
completed and tested. - Summer 2004 Animated Flash version is launched.
New quiz is written (yet to be launched). The
tutorial is almost ready for Open Publication
release.
21Contribution to Student Learning
- Library is able to provide classroom faculty with
data about their students knowledge. - Librarians can use data to guide what they teach
during their in-person instruction session. - First year of quiz results show that students
have difficulty with paraphrasing. - Quiz rewritten to give students more practice
paraphrasing.
22Open Publication
- Positive response and requests to use the
tutorial from high schools thru research
universities in Canada and the U.S. - In an attempt to set a standard, Open Publication
License is based on other libraries OPL for
tutorials (TILT and NetTrail). - Programmer and Web Team are deciding what files
and formats to make available for download. - Programmer is creating a brief registration page
to collect data on who downloads our tutorial.
23Link to SJSU Tutorialshttp//tutorials.sjlibrary
.org/