Information literacy through inquiry: A Level One psychology module at the University of Sheffield

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 63, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 221-240

  McKinney, Pamela ^a   Jones, Myles ^a   Turkington, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; Information literacy; Learning

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESOURCES; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EVALUATION ACTIVITY; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; FOCUS GROUPS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; IN-BUILDINGS; INFORMATION LITERACY; INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING; JOURNAL ARTICLES; LEARNING; PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH PAPERS; SHEFFIELD; STUDENT PERCEPTIONS; TEACHING AND LEARNING; TWO SOURCES;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS; TEACHING; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 79955931077     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012531111135673     Document Type: Article

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