Research Project

I-SKILLS Résumé– a tool for reflection on and self-evaluation of Information Literacy.

06/05/2009 - Have received great feedback at LOEX and WILU presentations
03/26/2009 - Final version of JAL article available online (see link below)
01/31/2009 - Have had papers accepted at LOEX, EBLIP5, ALA, and WILU based on the research... gulp... um... hooray!
10/22/2008 - Will be presenting material from research as part of SOTL reports program at MRU
09/26/2008 - Paper "Watching Learning Happen" accepted by Journal of Academic Librarianship - Woohoo!
09/06/2008 - Presentation accepted for International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference, October 2008, Edmonton (see below)
25/03/2008 - Received Ethics approval to continue study for another five years
01/01/2008 - Began six-month leave to analyse data
Two year interlude of data gathering...
29/06/2006 - LOTW presentation went well - lots of good ideas from the participants
31/03/2006 - Received most ever submitted résumés from students in all three years of journalism
31/12/2005 - Paper on I-SKILLS accepted for presentation at LOEX of the West
18/12/2005 - had a wonderful time at NELINET discussing Assessment of Information Literacy
12/07/2005 - Invited to speak at a workshop for NELINET
10/07/2005 - Article "Open Résumé": Magic Words for Assessment" in College & Research Libraries News v. 66, #7, pp 516-520
11/01/2005- Poster presentation - I-SKILLS Résumé - accepted for ACRL Conference in Minneapolis

Project Description (Word)
Ethics Approval Form (Word)
Consent Form (Word)
Follow-up Questions (Word)
Anticipated Timeline (Word)
Sample I Skills form (Word)
Blank I-skills form (Word)
Blank I-skills form for First-Year Journalists (Word)

If you would like to see Bibliographies generated for associated literature reviews, please send an email to mmacmillan@mtroyal.ca.

 

Publications and Presentations

EBLIP5, June 29-July 3, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
Connections, reflections, and redirections: bridging research and practice in information literacy instruction
Presentation (ppt) (now with participants' comments) * Handout (Word) * sample I-SKILLS form (Word)

WILU 2009, May25-28, 2009, Montreal PQ
Prompting reflection to enhance learning and teaching
Presentation (ppt) (now with participants' comments thanks to Maureen  Perry, Paula McMillen and Susie Brier who found my memory stick) * Handout (Word)

Mount Royal Library PD Day, May 5, 2009
Watching Learning Happen
Poster (pdf)

LOEX 2009, April 30-May, 2009, Albuquerque, N.M.
Many paths, one journey: mapping the routes to information literacy
Presentation - Now with participant comments! (ppt) * Handout (Word)

Watching Learning Happen: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Journalism Students,
Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 35, No. 2 (March, 2009), p. 132-142.
(if you cannot access the article, please contact me for a reprint)

Mount Royal SOTL Presentation, October 22, 2008
Watching Learning Happen: Results of a five-year study of the information skills of journalism students
Presentation (ppt)

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Oct 16-19, 2008, Edmonton.
Reflecting, Connecting, and Redirecting
Presentation now updated! (ppt) * Handout (Word) (see Watching Learning happen - above - for more of the study results.)

LOEX-of-the-West Conference, June 8-10, 2006, Kona, Hawaii.
Self-Assessment Skills for Lifelong Learning
Presentation (ppt) Now with participant notes!!!! * Handout - sample I-SKILLS form (Word) * Original Presentation (ppt)

NELINET Seminar: Assessing Information Literacy, Dec 13, 2005
The I-SKILLS Résumé: Prompting reflection and self assessment
Presentation (now updated) * Handout

Open Résumé: Magic Words for Assessment (Word)
College & Research Library News, Vol 66, No. 7, 2005, pp 516-520.

I.F. (Information Fluency) (Word)
College & Research Library News, Vol 66, No. 7, 2005, p 520.

MRU Teaching/Learning Institute 2005
The I-SKILLS Résumé: An Assessment Tool and The Research Project It Spawned (html)
Presentation * Handout

Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, April 7-10, 2005, Minneapolis.
I-SKILLS Résumé Poster,
PowerPoint or html format and Handout. The handout has been expanded to include answers to questions I heard about the poster at the conference.

I-SKILLS Résumé Research Project Session for Centre for Communication Studies (html)
Presentation and Handout , December 2004.

Interim Report, July 2004 (html)

"Open Résumé": Magic Words for Assessment (html)
Presentation and handout on the project for the MRU Teaching/Learning Institute, May 2004

I would like to thank the Library, the University, the Information Retrieval and Evaluation Outcomes Team, my colleagues and Kathy Enger, whose workshop on PBL at LOEX of the West 2002 gave me the idea of using a résumé. I am also indebted to H. Clarke, my research mentor. Most of all, thanks to the faculty and students in the Journalism program at Mount Royal for their support of and participation in my research project.

I encourage anyone who thinks this approach may be useful to experiment with the Information Skills Résumé- BUT - please let me know how you're using it and what the results are.

Thanks

Margy MacMillan

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