Guiding questions for assessing information literacy in higher education

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Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-286

  Oakleaf, Megan ^a   Kaske, Neal ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Regional Libraries   (Bulgaria)

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5. Ibid.
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51. Ibid.
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55. Prus and Johnson, 83.
56. Oakleaf, "The Information Literacy Instruction Assessment Cycle: A Guide for Increasing Student Learning and Improving Librarian Instructional Skills," Journal of Documentation(forthcoming).