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Discovery Tools in the Classroom: A Usability Study and Implications for Information Literacy Instruction

Author
Joel Tonyan & Christi Piper
Year
2019
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
DOI/Link
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19322909.2018.1530161
Abstract
In 2016, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) library acquired ProQuest’s discovery tool Summon. To determine when information literacy instruction using Summon would be effective and what aspects should be taught, librarians conducted a usability study. Students completed tasks focused on determining whether Summon is intuitive and whether the interface needs to be taught. Results indicate that students are comfortable with the interface and have few problems with the tool. Instead, participants struggled with critical thinking processes associated with research. Results were used to integrate the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into instruction.
Keywords
Media Literacy, Teacher Education
Tags
Teacher training
PGDMIL Course
C06 – Media, Information and Empowerment
PGDMIL Block
C06-B3: Communication, MIL and Learning
Has Part
C06-U11: MIL, Teaching and Learning
Corpus Status
Accepted – In Corpus

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