Use It or Lose It? A Longitudinal Performance Assessment of Undergraduate Business Students' Information Literacy

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 438-444

  Stonebraker, Ilana R ^a   Fundator, Rachel ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; For credit courses; Information literacy; Longitudinal studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964909832     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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