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Study Ties College Success to Students’ Exposure to a High School Librarian

Study Ties College Success to Students’ Exposure to a High School Librarian

http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/09/k-12/good-research-habits-pay-study-ties-college-success-librarian-teacher-research-training-high-school/

“Attention, educators: training high school students early in digital research, partnering them with a school librarian, and providing time to practice skills can instill a high level of confidence during college. This triple play of digital literacy education was affirmed by preliminary observations of a study underway by EBSCO Information Services, an online database provider.

“The seeds for researching and training for informational literacy are planted in grade nine,” says Kate Lawrence, EBSCO’s senior director of user research, who is running the study. “There appears to be a relationship between what students were calling research boot camp in grade nine and the confidence they feel in conducting research at a college level.”

Lawrence and her team have run 22 user sessions, interviewing high school, college, and graduate students from the San Francisco Bay Area to Massachusetts, where EBSCO is based, to get a full sense of the literacy training college students receive. EBSCO launched the study to refine its products aimed at college students and make them better dovetail with how students conduct research. Lawrence instead discovered that the training students receive before college can be more crucial than what happens during their university years.”

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Posted on: October 7, 2014, 6:03 am Category: Uncategorized

By: Stephen Abram

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