This presentation was delivered at #4c17 in session K.42 on Friday, March 17th.

1. LILAC at KSU
Or, How Your Case Study on Information
Literacies Can be Part of the
@LILACProject
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2. Background
• LILAC is a multi-institutional initiative that
seeks to analyze and measure gaps in
students’ information-seeking behaviors in
digital spaces and then to provide possible
pedagogical interventions to address those
gaps.
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3. Institutional Context
• Kennesaw State
– DRU (R-3)
– 35K students, 3rd largest in GA
– North Metro Atlanta
– New Freshmen: 5,498
– Transfers: 2,471
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4. Methodology
• WPA 3.0
• 50 participants
• FYW courses
• ENGL 1101
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5. Demo/Psychographic Context
• First-Year Writers taking ENGL 1101 Summer
• Avg Age: 30 and 26
• Gender: Equal in %
• 39 Native speakers; 8 ELL
• 47%: “I am a strong writer.”
• 66%: “Writing will be important in my career.”
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6. Mixed Methods
Survey (5-7 minutes)
Students reported their attitudes and behaviors
Research Aloud Protocols (RAPs)
15-minutes of bibliographic information-seeking
Screen recorded
Narrated by participants
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7. Initial Quantitative Analysis
Where do students perform their bibliographic
research? Usually Use
Library
Databases 32%
Usually Use the
Web 84%
Sometimes
Forget Where
They Got Their
Information
32%
Do students say they
understand what
denotes scholarly,
peer-reviewed
sources? 57% YES
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8. Initial Quantitative Analysis
When searching for sources, students rate
accuracy/reliability/credibility:
.GOV
•47%
.COM
•13%
.ORG
•40%
.EDU
•53%
News
Sites/Apps
•9%
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9. Initial Quantitative Analysis
When evaluating
sources: 39% use information to support
their own opinions
6% don't think they need to do
research if they already know what
they want to say
54% know how to evaluate library
source information
82% know how to evaluate web
source information
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10. Initial Quantitative Analysis
Wait until last
minute
32% Know how to
ask a librarian
when stuck
40% Go beyond
required
sources
75%
When writing up their research…
More than
1/2 use
digital
citation
generators
24 % DON"T
know how to
cite
multimodal
sources
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11. Qualitative Coding Template
• Q3: What search engine do participants use to
find sources in a digital space?
• Q4: What type of search do participants perform?
• Q5: How do participants evaluate search results?
• Q6: How do participants evaluate sources?
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12. Initial Qualitative Analysis
• What are participants doing vs.
what they say they do.
• Coding template helps
researchers track/describe
RAP behaviors
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13. Example
• LILAC 14018 Q7: Note-taking behaviors:
“articulates process of saving PDFs to
compile list of possible sources, both
that support her opinion and that
challenge it
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14. Initial Qualitative Analysis
60%
5%
0%
17%
15%
3%0%
First Search in RAP
G - Google
GS - Google Scholar
SE - Other Search Engine
L - Library
W - Wikipedia
WS - Other Web Site
O - Other
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15. Initial Qualitative Analysis
11%
5%
3%
11%
10%
6%
1%10%
5%
5%
6%
5%
3%
5%
14%
0%
Question 6
T - Title
A - Abstract
AU - Author
CR - Credibility
PT - Publication Type
WT - Website
CU - Currency
RtT - Relevance to Topic
I - Interest
RC - Reference Cited
U - Usefulness
PK - Previous Knowledge
OV - Opposing Viewpoint
SA - Supports Arguments
V - Includes images, lists, graphs, etc
O - Other
46%
25%
13%
4%
2%
6%
0%2%2%
Question 4
K - Key Words
N - Natural Language Query
BO - Boolean Operators
AU - Author
T - Title
AS - Advanced Search
PT - Publication Type
PD - Publication Date
O - Other
What type of search? 3%
24%
13%
3%
3%
10%
8%
8%
1%
9%
5%
3%
4%
6% 0%
Question 5 N - No. Available Sources
P - Popularity
T - Title Site/Article
BSS - Brief Summary in Search
Results
AU - Author
CR - Credibility
PT - Publication Type
WT - Publication Type
CU - Currency
RtT - Relevance to Topic
I - Interest
RC - Reference Cited
U - Usefulness
PK - Previous Knowledge
O - Other
How do I
evaluate
search
results?
How do I evaluate found
sources?
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16. Initial Implications
• When mapped against WPA 3.0
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17. What’s Next?
• How can you get involved?
Recruit
Conduct
Code
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