An Integrated Approach to Information Literacy Instruction in Civil Engineering

Abstract

It is critical to graduate students that are information literate.Possessing the suite of skills associated with information literacy will enable our students to embark upon the path of life-long learning.To ensure that information literacy skills were adequately imparted to students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department and to quantify the extent to which the students attain these skills, information literacy modules were introduced into the civil and environmental engineering curriculum at Villanova University.These modules, which were first introduced in 2005 and are integrated throughout the curriculum, were developed by faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department with librarians from Falvey Library at Villanova University.Prior research has shown that information literacy instruction is most successful when it is associated with an assignment within a course as opposed to a stand-alone subject.Since the initial development of these modules, there have been several changes to the curriculum and the faculty teaching the courses.The attainment of the educational outcomes, which were based on Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) outcomes, has been well assessed in the first course in the sequence; now this assessment will be extended to all five courses in which information literacy instruction occurs.The information literacy program was the subject of a paper presented at the 2005 Annual ASEE conference.This paper will provide an update on the educational modules and outcomes and the assessment tools.

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