Each year, incoming first-year students at Davidson College take a series of courses called Davidson 101. In 2012, the program went online for the first time and included a survey and short assignment. This academic year, the Information Literacy team decided to revamp the program and develop our own survey instead of using a proprietary one. The new survey and assignment were designed to efficiently assess student research attitudes, experiences, and skills. We believe the changes were … [Read more...]
Research is easy… or is it?
March 6, 2013 By
Many first-year students come to college feeling confident in their abilities to find information, especially information on the Web; this confidence doesn’t always translate into good research skills, however. These students grew up with the Web and live in a sea of information; they know that it is easy to find information on just about any topic. Finding “some” information on a topic isn’t enough at Davidson, though; faculty members expect students to find good, authoritative sources. … [Read more...]
