Intended Information Literacy & Data Literacy Learning Outcomes for HKUST Graduates
- Ask good questions in order to address their information or research needs.
- Recognize how different formats, channels, and mechanisms are used for the production, organization, and distribution of information and data and apply this recognition prudently to their information and knowledge creation..
- Select and use appropriate search tools and methods effectively to find reliable information and data.
- Examine and compare information and sources effectively to determine accuracy, authority, reliability, timeliness, validity, viewpoint or bias when selecting information or data to use.
- Consider issues related to censorship, copyright, intellectual property, plagiarism, privacy and security to create, obtain, store, use and disseminate information responsibly and effectively.
The Library aims to help students to achieve these ILOs by the time they graduate from HKUST through:
- Customized workshops and online learning designed in collaboration with their professors and lecturers (contact your subject librarian)
- Self-learning via Library Guides and e-learning videos and games
- Experience in learning and researching in HKUST’s information environment
Rubric for Assessing Information Literacy Competency Levels
Assessment is an important part of learning Research and Leaning Support librarians created different information literacy rubrics. We offer these examples to illustrate ways we have:
- Worked with faculty to assess students’ information literacy competency levels
- Assisted faculty in designing assessment tasks and learning activities to facilitate the development of information literacy
- Created a shared framework for librarians,faculty members, and students to assess students’ work
Examples:
The American Association of Colleges and Universities also created its own AACU’s Information Literacy VALUE rubric) which library staff would be happy to modify and tailor to HKUST instructor needs.
In developing the information and data literacy program, librarians at HKUST take reference from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and its 6 frames: Authority Is Constructed and Contextual |Information Creation as a Process | Information Has Value | Research as Inquiry | Scholarship as Conversation | Searching as Strategic Exploration
last modified 19 August 2024