Conclusions

The project provided insight into faculty grading practices, giving librarians more confidence in suggesting pedagogical improvements around information fluency. We will modify how we teach citation practices.

We will further analyze this study’s results by major and demographic information such as first-generation college students, and repeat this study with the 2012 cohort. We started tracking individual participation in course-integrated instruction sessions and research consultations with the 2012 cohort. We administered the Research Practices Survey to them in Fall 2012, early 2013, and will resurvey in Spring 2016. This will provide data examining information fluency for a cohort over time. We will obtain samples from a different selection of majors over the full academic year.

We will present our findings to the campus community, offering the rubric and our expertise to faculty for information fluency evaluation, and share our results with our campus writing director to discuss improvement of student writing.