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Academic research
- Scottish
Government Education Department sponsored research report presenting
the findings from a small study investigating the relationship between
mediation and effective development of information literacy in secondary
school students. Research carried out by Professor Dorothy Williams
and Caroline Wavell of the Robert
Gordon University.
- Helen
Gierveld Article
- Focuses on the social marketing of institutional repositories to increase
both value and rate of deposit, which could equally be applied to "hooking"
teaching staff into information literacy skills development.
- JISC
Investing in Staff i-skills: A strategy for institutional development
- This provides evidence to support the argument for the development
of i-skills, outline the potential risks of taking no action and suggests
an organisation-wide framework for the development of these skills.
- Learning
and Teaching Scotland
- Introduces information literacy for teachers. It has produced a research
report which is useful for linking arguments within the context
of A Curriculum for Excellence and contains reference to rich resources.
- UK
Grad
- Outlines the recommendations of the Roberts Report which requires
that research students should be given a set amount of training in transferable
skills (including information literacy).
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