by Ruth V. Small
In her research, Carol Kuhlthau discovered that students not only demonstrate patterns in their learning of research skills but also demonstrate patterns in their motivation as they progress through the research process. For example, she found that students become anxious and overwhelmed at the very beginning of the process when they must choose a research topic and experience the frustration and anxiety of information overload when their information search presents them with mountains of information.
In my own research, I have sought to discover what librarians did, motivationally speaking, when they taught information literacy skills to their students, using John Keller’s ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) Model as a framework for analyzing what we observed. Read on …
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education
library
information literacy
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