Date Created

1-1-2004

Abstract

Assessing students' information literacy skills can be difficult depending on the involvement of the librarian in a course. To overcome this, librarians created an assignment called the Paper Trail, where students wrote a short essay about their research process and reflected on what they would do differently. Through reviewing and grading these papers, librarians determined whether students understood the difference between the library catalog and article databases, evaluated the students' search terms to see if they used effective topic keywords and Boolean operators, and learned more on how the students reflected on their research process.

Publication Title

Research Strategies

Document Type

Article

Volume

20

Issue

1-2

First Page

89

Last Page

98

DOI

doi:10.1016/j.resstr.2005.07.004

Rights Statement

This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier.

Extent

22 pages

Digital Origin

Born digital

Publisher

Elsevier BV

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