PRE-SEARCH TO RESEARCHCredo as “Academic Google”

Niketha McKenzieFirst Year Experience Librarian

Adia ColemanPatent & Trademark Librarian

Kimberly ProsperS.T.E.M. Librarian

Pre-Search to Research: Credo as “Academic Google”

Learning Outcome

In this webinar, we will explore how to:

Promote “One-Shot” instruction as a two part workshop.

Incorporate student comfortability and convenience as a tool for student engagement and research buy-in.

Develop a shared platform of accountability for librarians and faculty as partners in student retention and scholarship.

Presentation Workflow

Phase I: “Pre-Search” | Phase II: “Research” | Phase III: “The Credo Effect”

“Pre-Search”Learning Outcome: Revision “One-Shot” instruction as

a two part workshop.

Project Information Literacy Findings:

College libraries are far larger and more complex than high school libraries.

It is daunting to conduct online searches for academic literature for the first time.

Most freshmen find their research competencies from high school are inadequate for college work.

________________________________________________ Source: Project

Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning the Ropes” | December 4, 2013 | Alison J. Head

Niketha McKenzieFirst Year Experience Librarian

Instructional Problem ?The Credo Solution

• A limited number of instructional librarians.

• Rethinking ways to improve our first-year

instructional framework.Problem

• One stop shop for information literacy instruction.

• Easily embedded into online courses.

• An exceptional workshop reinforcement tool.

Credo

Solution

InfoLit Modules

Process - Instructional Framework

Putting Your Skills to Use

This interactive presentation will walk you through the process of collecting appropriate resources for use in a research paper or project using open web and library tools. You will also have the opportunity to print or save the materials that you collect throughout the exercise.

Hybrid Model

Credo provides a variety of library tutorials that focus on the research process, how to write a paper, study skills, and presentation tools and techniques.

These tutorials are easily embedded into blackboard and can be used as a reinforcement resource for professors.

Pre-search to Research

A two part library instruction workshop that focus on research support. In the pre-search workshop students “unpack” their topics and focus on the research process. In the Research Workshop, students explore library databases and other resources to support their informational need.

2 PART

The 4 “P’s” of Pre-search using Credo

Process Preparing to

Unpack

Practice &

Play

Position

Tools: Credo Reference Instructional Videos

Tools: Credo Reference Mind map tool

Tools: Credo Reference database

Research Ready

PositionPreparing students to delve into academic research, moving them from K-12 models to scholarly platforms.

“Research”Learning Outcome: To incorporate student comfortability and convenience as a tool for student engagement and research buy-in.

Adia ColemanPatent & Trademark Librarian

The 4 “R’s” of Research using Credo

Realization Redirecting Refining Reflection

RealizationWe know that students cannot begin to do their research without being made aware of ALL the resources they will have access to.

Awareness

Resource Matching

Discovery Expansion

Information Need Identification

Time Management

Answers:

WHAT Howard University has…

WHERE resources are located…

HOW to access them…

RedirectingWe have the students conduct a simple search on Google using their keyword search terms that they formed in the “Pre-Search Process”.

Google Credo as “Academic Google”

Refining- Credo as “Academic Google”

Knowing what to look for

Tools

Related

Resources

Content

Types

Reflection

“We do not learn from experience … we learn from on experience.” - John Dewey

01 02 03 04

Students reflect on their KEYWORDS from their brainstorming practice.

Students reflect on the visual aid that displays all of the RESOURCES that Howard University offers.

Students reflect on their ROAD MAP to give them a navigation into their topics.

Students can now feel comfortable with starting in Google and moving to Credo, and knowing what elements to look for.

“The Credo Effect”Learning Outcome: Develop a shared

platform of accountability for librarians and faculty as partners in student retention and scholarship.

Kimberly ProsperS.T.E.M Librarian

• Strengthens General Education.

• Competencies and Student Scholarship.

Library Value Added

• To expand role as collaborative educational partners.

Next Steps

The Credo Effect

• Cultivate Curiosity in Research.

• Increase comfort in academic research and

independent learning.

Student Voices

• Research Improvement in Curriculum.

• Alignment to Curriculum.

Faculty Buy-In

Student VoicesCultivating curiosity

“Most students admitted that they had never used library databases to conduct research. Indeed, most rarely even enter

the library to take advantage of the wealth of resources available to them.”

Cultivating curiosity requires taking risks and allowing time for student innovation.

Steps to flex the curiosity muscle:

• Reframe "boring" situations.

• Promote Exploration and Experimentation.

• Support Questioning.

Student Voices

“ I am equally as thrilled with the opportunity to have a second session during which the students will focus on specific

databases and have time for searches.”

Increase comfort in academic research and independent learning.

Steps to achieve independent learning:

• Model and release.

• Build in time for play and process.

• Support student thinking.

Increase comfort in academic research

Faculty Buy-In and EngagementResearch Improvement in the curriculum

“I am so glad that the library is moving in a direction

that meets our students where they are and moves them

to understand the need for critical thinking using a

step-by-step process for researching. In Ms.

McKenzie's words, "pre-search for research" is an

excellent approach for our students.”

Research Improvement in the curriculum:

• Use libguides as a collorbative tool for

curriculum design and development.

• Identify the problems and highlight the

library as the solution.

• Build respectful relationship with trust and

accountability practices.

Faculty Buy-In and EngagementAligning to Curriculum

“Helping the students focus on their topic and what they need to

know, i.e. a broad knowledge of their topic and narrowing the

topic through the research process fits right into the theory they are reading about in the textbook.”

Curriculum collaboration:

• Bridging the gap between the information literacy standards and course learning outcomes.

• Creating an instructional plan as a collaborative tool for library instruction and faculty buy-in.

• Establish a dedicated website for disseminating library resources.

Library Value Added

“Most students admitted that they had never used the library

databases to conduct research. Indeed, most rarely even

enter the library to take advantage of the wealth of resources

available to them.”

Strengthens General Education

Academic Library Impact on Student Learning and Success: Findings from Assessment in Action Team Projects,”

Positive connections between the library and aspects of student

learning and success:

• Students benefit from library instruction in their initial

coursework.

• Library use increases students success.

• Collaborative academic programs and services involving the

library enhance student learning.

• Information literacy instruction strengthens general

education outcomes.

• Library research consultations boost student learning.

Next Steps & Action Items

“Needless to say, your workshops have transformed the

kind of research my students are beginning to conduct

and I look forward to having many more students benefit

from your instruction in the future!”

Facilitate the next steps of transitioning library instruction.

• Develop Sessions for professional development.

• Improve our team teaching practices.

• Increase library resource awareness for faculty and students.

Thank You.QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR REMARKS?

Join our final Credo in Action Webinar!

10 Creative Activities to Support Student Engagement Using Credo

August 30th @ 2PM ET

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