1. Unrealistic Expectations What we think students know about research Teaching and Learning Strategies, May 12, 2008 Jutta Seibert & Barbara Quintiliano (Falvey Memorial Library)

2. What are the research habits of your students?

3. What are your expectations? What research habits would you like to see?

4. “ The information literate student identifies a variety of types and formats of potential sources for information.” * * Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

6. “ The information literate student selects the most appropriate investigative methods or information retrieval systems for accessing the needed information.” Where to search for different types of sources? Would you describe your students’ search skills as hit and miss (at best)?

9. “ The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically.”

10. Can your students tell when a website is presenting reliable and authoritative information? Q. Is the following statement true or false? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) surveys newly uploaded websites and verifies their accuracy. When asked this question, 90% of students responded true !

11. Do your students list Wikipedia as a source of information? Q. Who writes the articles that appear in Wikipedia? Student answer: A committee of selected authors. For viewpoints on use of Wikipedia in course work, see http:// library.villanova.edu/research/wikipedia_resources.html