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    Impact of Assignment Prompt on Information Literacy Performance in First-Year Student Writing
    (Elsevier, 2016) Lowe, M. Sara; Stone, Sean M.; Booth, Char; Tagge, Natalie
    This study attempts to quantify the impact of assignment prompts and phased assignment sequencing on first-year student work. Specifically, whether more fully developed and “scaffolded” assignment prompts produced better Information Literacy (IL) in student papers (n=520). The examination of assignment prompts in relation to student IL rubric scores would seem to indicate the conventional wisdom on developing assignment prompts might not have an impact on IL performance.
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    Impacting Information Literacy Learning in First-Year Seminars: A Rubric-Based Evaluation
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-07) Lowe, M. Sara; Booth, Char; Stone, Sean M.; Tagge, Natalie
    The authors conducted a rubric assessment of information literacy (IL) skills in research papers across five undergraduate first-year seminar programs to explore the question “What impact does librarian intervention in first-year courses have on IL performance in student work?” Statistical results indicate that students in courses with greater levels of strategic faculty-librarian collaboration performed significantly better in IL outcomes than those in courses with low collaboration. Intensive librarian course support was not necessary to achieve significant learning gains; these tended to occur when librarians provided initial input into syllabus and assignment design, followed by one or two assignment-focused IL workshops.