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One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Effectiveness and Subjective Evaluations of Adaptable Information Literacy Instruction

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Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability (ECIL 2015)

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The paper examines whether effects of an adaptable information literacy instruction program are associated with (a) adherence to the recommendations of online learning contents derived from a test of prior knowledge and (b) subjective evaluations of the program. An adaptable blended learning training for German psychology students was evaluated in a study with a pretest-posttest design. N = 64 advanced students completed two tests of scholarly information literacy, an information literacy self-efficacy scale, and an evaluation questionnaire. Participants who worked on more online materials than recommended based on their pretest performance did not differ in their gain scores from participants who exactly followed the recommendations. However, both groups outperformed participants who omitted recommended materials. According to subjective evaluations, the latter participants constitute a “risk group” with low subjective acceptance of online teaching which might need additional support during online learning or alternative forms of instruction.

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    Research was funded by a grant from the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation acquired within the Leibniz Competition 2012 (SAW-2012-ZPID-6 114).

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    Online materials and a training manual are available online (currently in German language only): http://www.zpid.de/blink.

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    Five participants could not be assigned to one of the groups because they did not comply with recommendations in a systematic fashion, i.e. they omitted recommended but worked on optional chapters.

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  1. ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Universitätsring 15, 54296, Trier, Germany

    Anne-Kathrin Mayer, Johannes Peter, Nikolas Leichner & Günter Krampen

  2. University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54286, Trier, Germany

    Günter Krampen

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

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  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Mayer, AK., Peter, J., Leichner, N., Krampen, G. (2015). One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Effectiveness and Subjective Evaluations of Adaptable Information Literacy Instruction. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_29

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