5/8/13 Reflection on K12 versus Higher academic standards

Post date: May 13, 2013 9:22:13 AM

"Standards for the 21st Century Learner." American Association of School Librarians. N.p., 2007. Web. 11 May 2013. <www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf>.

Information literacy competency standards for higher education. Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2000. Print.

The standards for K-12 education are more focused on personal growth and ability to retrieve the needed information than the standards for higher education are. The standards for higher education are focused more on what things need to be done in order to get better results and to narrow down a topic while still getting the most scholarly sources possible and citing them correctly. The K-12 standards also put more emphasis on the sharing of resources, which makes sense because sharing is still a large part of someone’s life while in primary school. Once advancing on to higher education, the education world starts to become more personalized and every-man-or-woman-for-themselves.

The process involved starts clear from the beginning and emphasizes thinking about the research in the right frame of mind and then using that as a basis for how to find the best research available. This is an important step because if the steps can be narrowed down at all, then that means the searching will hopefully go faster and better, higher quality results can be found. This is why at Wartburg College we have librarians meet with the students for certain classes that help students to learn better ways of researching.