New Research Paper: “Factors Affecting Students’ Information Literacy as They Transition from High School to College “

The following full text article was recently made available online.
It appears in Vol. 14 of School Library Research published by AASL (American Association of School Libraries).

Title

Factors Affecting Students’ Information  Literacy as They Transition from High School to College 

Authors

Jana Varlejs
Rutgers University
Eileen Stec
Rutgers University
Hannah Kwon
PhD Student, Rutgers

Source

School Library Research
Vol. 17, 2014

Abstract

Despite the considerable attention paid to the need to increase the information literacy of high school students in preparation for the transition to college, poor research skills still seem to be the norm. To gain insight into the problem, library instruction environments of nineteen high schools were explored. The schools were selected based on whether their graduates did well or poorly on information-skills assignments integrated in a required first-year college course. The librarians in the nineteen schools were asked to characterize their working relationships with teachers, estimate their students’ information-literacy achievement, and provide data on their staffing and budgets.
Findings suggest that school librarians are seldom in a position to adequately collaborate with teachers and that their opportunities to help students achieve information literacy are limited.

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