Information Use Skills in the Engineering Programme Accreditation Criteria of Four Countries

Autor/in	Bradley, Cara
Titel	Information Use Skills in the Engineering Programme Accreditation Criteria of Four Countries
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 39 (2014) 1, S.97-111 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
DOI	10.1080/03043797.2013.833173
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Engineering; Engineering Education; Accreditation (Institutions); Information Literacy; Information Utilization; Librarians; Comparative Analysis; Librarian Teacher Cooperation; Content Analysis; Information Seeking; College Students; Outcomes of Education; Australia; Canada; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Maschinenbau; Ingenieurausbildung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Informationskompetenz; Informationsnutzung; Librarian; Bibliothekar; Bibliothekarin; Inhaltsanalyse; Informationserschließung; Collegestudent; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Australien; Kanada; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	The need for twenty-first century information skills in engineering practice, combined with the importance for engineering programmes to meet accreditation requirements, suggests that it may be worthwhile to explore the potential for closer alignment between librarians and their work with information literacy competencies to assist in meeting accreditation standards and graduating students with high-level information skills. This article explores whether and how information use skills are reflected in engineering programme accreditation standards of four countries: Canada, the USA, the UK, and Australia. Results indicate that there is significant overlap between the information use skills required of students by engineering accreditation processes and librarians' efforts to develop information literacy competencies in students, despite differences in terms used to describe these skills. Increased collaboration between engineering faculty and librarians has the potential to raise student information literacy levels and fulfil the information use-related requirements of accreditation processes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10