How Does Students' Knowledge about Information-Seeking Improve Their Behavior in Solving Information Problems?.

M Parissi, V Komis, G Dumouchel, K Lavidas… - Educational Process …, 2023 - ceeol.com
Background/purpose–This study investigates how the teaching intervention and familiarity
with the search topic enhance Greek students' behaviour while solving information …

Evaluative frameworks and scientific knowledge for undergraduate STEM students: An illustrative case study perspective

K Mercer, KD Weaver - Science & Technology Libraries, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 gives an important focal point to the increasingly complex and
overwhelming amounts, types, and availability of information undergraduate STEM students …

Critical evaluation of information as a new threshold concept for navigating STEM information

K Mercer, KD Weaver - Science & Technology Libraries, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
When the ACRL Framework was introduced, librarians were challenged to look at the
presented threshold concepts and consider how to build on them through practice. STEM …

Using genres for laboratory work, report writing and design projects: comparing second and fourth year undergraduate engineers

S Dodson - Information and Learning Sciences, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to investigate patterns of information use among undergraduate
engineers as they progress through their academic programs. The primary objective was to …

Listening to First Generation College Students in Engineering: Implications for Libraries & Information Literacy

E Dommermuth, LW Roberts - … in Information Literacy, 2022 - pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu
First-generation college students (FGCS) in engineering bring a wealth of knowledge to their
academic and social experiences in higher education, in contrast to deficit-based narratives …

Self‐directed information literacy scale: A comprehensive validation study

KA Douglas, T Fernandez, M Fosmire… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Engineering and technology students need to acquire, evaluate, apply, and
document information to solve complex ill‐defined problems. However, there are few …

Critical reading across the engineering disciplines

KD Weaver, K Mercer, J Howcroft - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Engineering students spend a significant amount of time discovering, evaluating, and
reading/interpreting information. This book chapter discusses the existing knowledge …

The browser extension guidance for online information searching

E Efendioğlu, E Sendurur - The Electronic Library, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to develop and test a browser extension as a scaffolding tool to
guide learners about evaluating online sources. Design/methodology/approach In total, 129 …

Navigating complex authorities: Intellectual freedom, information literacy and truth in pandemic STEM information

K Mercer, KD Weaver, K Waked - IFLA journal, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Traversing scientific information has become increasingly fraught, as the new information
landscape allows anyone to access endless information with a few keystrokes. However …

Critical appraisal and evaluation of information

K Mercer, KD Weaver, G Lamont - Teaching science students to …, 2023 - Springer
The way information is communicated is inextricably linked to how it is found and
understood. Tied to this are the realities of changing and overwhelming information …