truth be told: how today’s students conduct research (keynote) - alison head
DESCRIPTION
LILAC 2014 Keynote SpeakerTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research
Alison J. Head24 April 2014 | LILAC
![Page 2: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
TeachAdviseTrainDevelopPromoteDiscussPracticeAdvanceStudy
Information Literacy
![Page 3: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
![Page 4: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
1746Articles and books about IL published in 2013
ALONE
Search of all databases at University of Washington Libraries, “information literacy,”4 April 2014
![Page 5: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Source: Top 50 most relevant books and peer-reviewed articles from search, 4 April 2014
What was the IL discussion about last year?
![Page 6: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
What can we learn
from students?
![Page 7: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
7 Takeaways
from Students
About TheirInformation Literacy COMPETENCIES
![Page 8: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
#1Students say
research is more difficult
than ever before.
![Page 9: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Adjectives that describe how you feel when you get a research assignment . . .
fear,angst, tired,dread,excited, anxious, annoyed, stressed,disgusted, intrigued, confused, andoverwhelmed.
2009, n = 86 | 7 campuses
![Page 10: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
#2 Getting started--
the hardestpart of
course research
![Page 11: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Task Definition
Search Usinginformation
Taskdefinition
Search Selfassessment
69% 41% 30% 25%
What is most difficult?
2010 Survey, n = 8353 | 25 campuses
Getting startedDefining a topic
Narrowing a topic
![Page 12: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
#3 Frustrations
beginwith
finding context
![Page 13: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Informationneed
Course research
Everyday lifeResearch
1. Big PictureSummary,
backgroundAlmost always
Often
2. Information Gathering
Locating relevant sources
Often Sometimes
2009, n = 2,318 | 6 campuses
Modeling the search for context
PIL’s Context Typology
![Page 14: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Informationneed
Course research
Everyday lifeResearch
3. LanguageMeaning of
words, terms Sometimes Sometimes
4. Situational
How far to go, surrounding
circumstancesSometimes Sometimes
2009, n = 2,318 | 6 campuses
PIL’s Context Typology
Modeling the search for context
![Page 15: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
#4 Students use the
same few go-to
sources.
![Page 16: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
2010 Survey, n = 8,353 | 25 campuses2009, n = 2,318 | 6 campuses
Course research
Librarians 30% (2010); 47% ( 2009)
![Page 17: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Everyday life research
2010 Survey, n = 8353 | 25 campuses2009 Survey, n =2,318 | 6 campuses
Librarians 14%( 2010); 33% (2009)
![Page 18: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Satisficing
Situational & informationgathering contexts
Big picture / language contexts
A well-trodden path
![Page 19: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
#5 Wikipedia is
“my presearch tool”
![Page 20: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Why Wikipedia?
2010 Wikipedia, First Monday, n = 8353 | 25 campuses
![Page 21: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
#6 Instructors
are “my research coaches”
![Page 22: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
1. Majority recommend a “place-based source” (60%)
2. Few recommended consulting librarians (13%)
3. Few defined what “research” is or means (16%)
2010 Handout Study, n = 191 handouts | 28 campuses
Handouts offer little guidance
![Page 23: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
#7 The
library is “my refuge”
![Page 24: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
How is the library used?
2009 Survey, n = 2318 | 6 campuses
![Page 25: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Why ask a librarian for help?
2009 Survey, n = 2318 | 6 campuses
Language / information gathering contexts
![Page 26: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
What’s a librarian to do?
![Page 27: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Interpreting change Implications
Shift from information scarcity to abundance.
• Evaluation is 21st competency
Information is disembodied from the whole source.
• More results > abstracts matter
Connectivity = “always on, always notifying.”
• Libraries as refuge > different needs
![Page 28: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
PIL Finding Solutions
Overloaded, busy, and doing things at last minute.
• Offer on-demand info services
Using same sources, many from high school experience.
• Go beyond “one shots,” e.g., three shots
Defining a topic is harder than finding sources.
• Fewer lessons on “search,” embed in courses
![Page 29: Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research (Keynote) - Alison Head](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062510/54b545bf4a7959c1518b45c6/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Truth Be Told: How Today’s Students Conduct Research
Alison J. Head24 April 2014 | [email protected]