Journal Article

Factors Affecting Students’ Information Literacy as They Transition from High School to College

Stec, Eileen, Varlejs, Jana, Kwon, Hannah

2014

Overview

Despite the considerable attention paid to the need to increase the information literacy of high school students in preparation for the transition to college, poor research skills still seem to be the norm. To gain insight into the problem, library instruction environments of nineteen high schools were explored. The schools were selected based on whether their graduates did well or poorly on information-skills assignments integrated in a required first-year college course. The librarians in the nineteen schools were asked to characterize their working relationships with teachers, estimate their students’ information-literacy achievement, and provide data on their staffing and budgets. Findings suggest that school librarians are seldom in a position to adequately collaborate with teachers and that their opportunities to help students achieve information literacy are limited.

• Publisher: American Library Association,American Association of School Librarians
• Subject: Academic achievement / Academic Libraries / Academic readiness / Assignments / Bibliographies / Budgets / Collaboration / College Bound Students / College Environment / College Freshmen / College students / Conferences (Gatherings) / Cooperation / Data Collection / Educational Attainment / Educational Resources / Enrollment / Faculty College Relationship / Graduates / High School Freshmen / High School Graduates / High School Students / Information / Information Literacy / Information Skills / Information Transfer / Interviews / Librarian Teacher Cooperation / Librarians / Library Instruction / Library Personnel / Library Research / Library Skills / Literacy / Literacy Education / National Programs / New Jersey / Required Courses / Research Skills / Role / School librarians / School Libraries / Scores / Secondary school students / Secondary school teachers / Secondary schools / Skills / Staffing / Student teacher relationship / Summative Evaluation / Teachers / Teaching / User training / Working relationships / Writing Assignments