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LILAC at KSUOr, How Your Case Study on Information
Literacies Can be Part of the@LILACProject
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Background
• LILAC is a multi-institutional initiative that seeks to analyze and measure gaps in students’ information-seeking behaviors in digital spaces and then to provide possible pedagogical interventions to address those gaps.
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Institutional Context
• Kennesaw State– DRU (R-3)– 35K students, 3rd largest in GA– North Metro Atlanta– New Freshmen: 5,498– Transfers: 2,471
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Methodology
• WPA 3.0• 50 participants• FYW courses• ENGL 1101
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Demo/Psychographic Context
• First-Year Writers taking ENGL 1101 Summer• Avg Age: 30 and 26 • Gender: Equal in %• 39 Native speakers; 8 ELL• 47%: “I am a strong writer.”• 66%: “Writing will be important in my career.”
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Mixed Methods
Survey (5-7 minutes)Students reported their attitudes and behaviors
Research Aloud Protocols (RAPs)15-minutes of bibliographic information-seekingScreen recordedNarrated by participants
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Initial Quantitative Analysis
Where do students perform their bibliographic research? Usually Use
Library Databases 32%
Usually Use the Web 84%
Sometimes Forget Where They Got Their
Information32%
Do students say they understand what denotes scholarly, peer-reviewed sources? 57% YES
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Initial Quantitative Analysis
When searching for sources, students rate accuracy/reliability/credibility:
.GOV• 47%
.COM• 13%
.ORG• 40%
.EDU• 53%
News Sites/Apps• 9%
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Initial Quantitative AnalysisWhen evaluating sources: 39% use information to support
their own opinions
6% don't think they need to do research if they already know what
they want to say
54% know how to evaluate library source information
82% know how to evaluate web source information
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Initial Quantitative Analysis
Wait until last minute
32% Know how to ask a librarian when stuck
40% Go beyond required sources
75%
When writing up their research…
More than 1/2 use digital
citation generators
24 % DON"T know how to
cite multimodal
sources
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Qualitative Coding Template
• Q3: What search engine do participants use to find sources in a digital space?
• Q4: What type of search do participants perform?
• Q5: How do participants evaluate search results?
• Q6: How do participants evaluate sources?
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Initial Qualitative Analysis
• What are participants doing vs. what they say they do.
• Coding template helps researchers track/describe RAP behaviors
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Example
• LILAC 14018 Q7: Note-taking behaviors: “articulates process of saving PDFs to compile list of possible sources, both that support her opinion and that challenge it
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Initial Qualitative Analysis
60%
5%
18%
15%
3%
First Search in RAP
G - GoogleGS - Google ScholarSE - Other Search EngineL - LibraryW - WikipediaWS - Other Web SiteO - Other
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Initial Qualitative Analysis
What type of search?
How do I evaluate search results?
How do I evaluate found sources?
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Initial Implications• When mapped against WPA 3.0
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What’s Next?
• How can you get involved?
Recruit
Conduct
Code
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