Information Skills for Education Students

by Lloyd Richardson, Heather McBryde-Wilding

Overview

This study guide will help education students to locate, evaluate and make effective use of information, from what appears to be a growing and bewildering variety of sources. Both in and out of university, students are faced with increasingly diverse information choices. This book presents a practical and step-by-step approach to each of the six main skills which underpin information literacy. It also provides appropriate practical and reflective tasks, worked examples and top tips to help education students assess and develop their capacity to use information effectively, particularly in the planning and preparation of their course work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844451906
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/08/2009
Series:	Study Skills in Education Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.68(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Lloyd has spent over thirty years in secondary, tertiary and higher education, as a teacher, lecturer, researcher, course tutor and learning advisor. His most recent post has been Learning Support Co-ordinator at Bishop Grosseteste University College in Lincoln.

Heather Mc Bryde-Wilding is the Academic Support Manager for the School of Education at the University of Northampton. She is based in the Department of Information Services, which is a converged library and IT service.

Table of Contents

Information skills in context
Recognising the need for information
Information seeking strategies
Locating and accessing information
Evaluating information
Presenting information in appropriate formats
Self-reflection and self-assessment
Conclusion