Do people overestimate their information literacy skills? A systematic review of empirical evidence on the Dunning-Kruger effect

K Mahmood - Communications in Information Literacy, 2016 - pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu
This systematic review has analyzed 53 studies that assessed and compared peoples' self-
reported and demonstrated information literacy skills. The objective was to collect empirical …

How can the university library better meet the information needs of research students? Experiences from Ulster University

G Delaney, J Bates - New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates academic library needs of doctoral students. The study identifies
PhD students' information literacy training needs and explores current levels of library …

Is information literacy ability, and metacognition of that ability, related to interest, gender, or education level? A cross-sectional study of higher education students

E Nierenberg, TI Dahl - Journal of Librarianship and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
How information literate are students in higher education, and how accurate is their
metacognition related to that ability? Are students' perceived needs to learn more and their …

Backgrounds and behaviors: Which students successfully identify online resources in the face of container collapse

C Cyr, TT Cataldo, B Brannon, A Buhler, I Faniel… - First Monday, 2021 - firstmonday.org
In a digital environment, students have difficulty determining whether an information
resource comes from a book, magazine, journal, blog, or other container, and lose the …

Examining high-performance work practices in academia: role of administrative workload and support staff

SM Aparna, S Sahney - International Journal of Productivity and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to explore the effectiveness of performance-oriented practices like
high-performance work practices (HPWPs) in higher education (HE), given its explicit focus …

Information literacy instruction in an English capstone course: A study of student confidence, perception, and practice

SF Paterson, CW Gamtso - The Journal of academic librarianship, 2017 - Elsevier
An English professor and an instruction librarian at the University of New Hampshire at
Manchester felt that the college's new English Capstone course for majors provided a …

Information literacy skills of first-year library and information science graduate students: An exploratory study

A Hebert - Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2018 - erudit.org
Objective–This cross-sectional, descriptive study seeks to address a gap in knowledge of
both information literacy (IL) self-efficacy and IL skills of students entering Louisiana State …

Search strategy, self-concept and metacognitive skills of secondary school teachers in selected cities in Nigeria and South Africa

OO Durodolu, DN Ocholla - Libri, 2017 - degruyter.com
Abstract Information Literacy (IL) is fundamental for lifelong learning, especially for the
teaching profession, where information is critical for imparting knowledge to students who …

“That background knowledge”: What junior and senior undergraduate transfer students need from their libraries

M Robison, N Fawley, A Marshall - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020 - Elsevier
Undergraduate students who transfer from one institution to another do so at wildly variant
points in their college careers. The range of stages at which students transfer raises …

Faces of Informed Research: Enabling Research Collaboration.

C Maybee, S Gasson, CS Bruce, MM Somerville - Journal of Information …, 2022 - ERIC
This paper presents the Faces of Informed Research, an information literacy (IL) framework
that aims to enhance researchers' capacity to participate productively in collaborative …