Two librarians at Dalhousie have partnered with an existing learning skills summer program for re-admitted students. We aimed to help students develop better research practices, and my role was to design an IL session and assignment. Our total efforts were threefold: (1) classroom instruction focusing on high-level concepts that align with the program’s mandate to help students break unproductive habits; (2) a Wikipedia-editing research assignment; (3) one-on-one sessions to reinforce concepts and skills to complete the assignment. This session will focus specifically on the IL session and research assignment.
Following this presentation, attendees will gain
Examples of how the ACRL Framework could be used as inspiration for a research assignment
Examples of how a Wikipedia editing assignment can be adapted to the one-shot environment
Ideas for partnering with other university stakeholders to promote student retention
