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Light bulb moments: identifying information research threshold concepts for fourth year engineering students
Phil Yorke-Barber, Loretta Atkinson, Gisela Possin and Leith Woodall (2008). Light bulb moments: identifying information research threshold concepts for fourth year engineering students. In: Llewellyn Mann, Adam Thompson and Prue Howard, To Industry and Beyond. AaeE 2008: Nineteenth Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Yeppoon, Central Queensland, (). 7th - 10th December 2008.
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| Author(s) |
Phil Yorke-Barber
Loretta Atkinson
Gisela Possin
Leith Woodall
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| Title of paper |
Light bulb moments: identifying information research threshold concepts for fourth year engineering students
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| Conference name |
AaeE 2008: Nineteenth Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education
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| Conference location |
Yeppoon, Central Queensland
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| Conference dates |
7th - 10th December 2008
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| Proceedings title |
To Industry and Beyond
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| Editor(s) |
Llewellyn Mann
Adam Thompson
Prue Howard
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| Place published |
Rockhampton, QLD
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| Publisher |
Australasian Association for Engineering Education
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| Publication date |
2008
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| Year available |
2008
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| ISBN |
1 921047 60 7
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| Collection year |
2008
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| Abstract/Summary |
The librarians in the Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library undertook a project to identify information research threshold concepts which fourth year undergraduate students must know to produce high quality research assignments. The methodology used to identify threshold concepts was to survey students, librarians and academics. A suggested threshold concept in information research is the critical evaluation of information resources to establish their authority, quality and credibility. This paper aims to demonstrate how a threshold concept approach clarifies the student experience in information research and provides a framework for the design of future information skills training.
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130103 Higher Education
080799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified
09 Engineering
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| Keyword(s) |
information literacy
threshold concepts
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