Information Literacy Faculty Fellows: Final Project Submission Form

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# Created User IP address Title of Project Your Name Email Address School or College Other School or College Cameron School of Business Academic Department College of Health and Human Services Academic Department College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts College of Science and Engineering Academic Department Watson College of Education Academic Department Other Academic Department Please describe your project Please choose at least one audience Other Audience Please choose at least one project category Other Project Category Please choose at least one Frame that your project incorporates File Upload What does the "U" in UNCW stand for? Submission date Operations
38 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:50 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Information Literacy LinkedIn Learning Certificate Gordon, Jean gordonjn@uncw.edu College of Health and Human Services Other MHA I create a LinkedIn Learning Certificate consisting of 10 courses required to be completed in HCA 508.
I also inserted 2 library training courses on IL as required assignments.
I modified the course signature assignment to align with
Focus on the ability to make “well-informed” evidenced-based decisions rather than “appropriate” ones
Acknowledge that organizations have a responsibility to address health literacy to impact healthcare equity among local populations
 Graduate Students Assignment, Syllabus Authority is Constructed and Contextual university 2022-03-24
37 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:48 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Using Review Papers to Identify Research Gaps Rother, Monica rotherm@uncw.edu College of Science and Engineering Environmental Sciences This project presents a set of in-class exercises to be completed over the course of 6 days in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The focus is to improve understanding of review papers and how they can be used to identify research gaps in a field of study. An extension of this project would be to use the research gaps as topics for student research projects also completed in the same semester. I plan to use these exercises in my Wildland Fire Ecology class (EVS 414/514), but they would work well in many UNCW classes.
 Upper-division undergraduates, Graduate Students Assignment, Teaching Plan Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-07-13
36 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:46 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Practicing Literary Criticism Essay Shelnutt, Blevin shelnuttm@uncw.edu College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts English This multi-stage project, including researched essay, annotated bibliography, peer review, and reflection, constitutes the culminating assignment for ENG 205, Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies, which satisfies the University Studies IL requirement and serves as an introductory course for majors.
 First-year students Assignment Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-06-01
35 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:41 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Becoming a Successful Researcher: Shaping the Mindset Movahedazarhouligh, Sara Movahedazarhoulighs@uncw.edu Watson College of Education Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy and Special Education This project aims to help students in Leadership, Policy, and Advocacy in Early Childhood Program (LPAEC) at WCE develop a researcher mindset and better approach, understand and implement their master level action research project. An introductory Module will be developed and incorporated into EDN 551: Advocacy research 1, as the first Module in the course, before students are required to start their proposal (which is currently what happens in this course). Students become familiar with designing and proposing a research project around an area of need in early childhood education in this course. Students are required to implement the proposed project during EDN 567: Advocacy Research project II. By completing the introductory Module, students will be able to apply and synthesize their knowledge to create their action research proposal in EDN 551 and implement the actual study in EDN 567. This project aims to smooth the transition from being a practitioner to being a researcher and help students develop a researcher mindset.
 Graduate Students Course design Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-05-31
34 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:39 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Global Issue Project Kuz-Grady, Anastasia kuza@uncw.edu College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts International Studies Title of Project
Drawing on disciplinary perspectives and integrating their insights and modes of thinking to advance understanding of a complex global problem (INT 105).
Project Description
Students will engage in a multi-step interdisciplinary research process to develop capacity to integrate knowledge, modes of thinking, and education experience, and apply skills to real-world problems beyond the university. Students will reflect on their epistemic positions and move toward developing a sophisticated epistemic position of critical pluralism which requires seeing multiple and often conflicting perspectives as partial understandings of the subject to be integrated in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the issue.
This assignment will be completed in steps (both in class and at home) during the full semester.
Step 1: Students will identify a global issue of interest to research as a class and develop a complex research question about the issue researchable in interdisciplinary sense. (Frame: Research as Inquiry).
Step 2: Students will identify all potentially relevant disciplines in investigating the issue and create a research map outlining the purpose of research, potentially relevant disciplines, their perspectives, and major assumptions. Students will conduct an initial literature review to finalize the list of 2-3 most relevant disciplines to consider as a class and reevaluate the research question, if needed. (Frame: Research as Inquiry).
Step 3: Students will be divided into small groups. Each group will be assigned a discipline to draw insights from. Groups will conduct a comprehensive literature review to discover disciplinary scholarly knowledge on the topic and develop adequacy in their assigned discipline: identify disciplinary perspective on the issue, assumptions, concepts, theories, and methods in order to understand the disciplinary insights concerning the issue. Students will summarize their findings in a group literature review data table and present their findings to the class. (Frames: Searching as Strategic Exploration).
Step 4: Students will reflect on their disciplinary understanding of the global issue and evaluate insights using disciplinary perspectives, major assumptions, and consider strengths and limitations. (Frame: Scholarship as Conversation).
Step 5: Students will integrate disciplinary insights using the Broad Model. Together, students will identify conflicts between disciplinary insights and reflect on why these conflicts exist. Students will create common ground between disciplinary insights to create a more complex understanding of the issue. (Frame: Scholarship as Conversation).		 First-year students, Upper-division undergraduates Assignment Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-05-31
33 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:37 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 PLS 401 Research Paper: Information Literacy Emphasis Rubric Gibson, Nadine gibsonn@uncw.edu College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts Public and International Affairs As a culmination of their political science education, students will be asked to complete an independent research paper in the style of an academic journal. This assignment is required in all PLS 401 course sections. To emphasize information literacy skills, this assignment contains a bifurcated rubric.
 Upper-division undergraduates Rubric Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-05-31
32 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:34 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 An Honors College undergraduate eminar course, HON120, entitled "Modern Biotechnology: Research and Careers" Wang, Ying wangyy@uncw.edu College of Science and Engineering Chemistry and Biochemistry The goal of this project is to design a one-credit hour course to introduce modern biotechnology to the undergraduate students from the Honors College of UNCW. It is often challenging to choose materials for traditional lectures in an introductory biotechnology course. Biotechnology is highly inter-disciplinary by nature, involved in a broad spectrum of research areas and applications, and characterized with fast-evolving technology development. In addition, the HON120 classes are constituted of students at all levels from freshmen to seniors with very different background knowledge. The information literacy framework helps to solve the existing challenges in this course. In this project, the course is designed to facilitate student-driven and research-based learning. The course design emphasizes all six frames of information literacy and the students' metaliterate learner roles in their research project.
 First-year students, Upper-division undergraduates Assignment, Syllabus, Teaching Plan, Rubric, Course design Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-05-04
31 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:32 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 HST 444/526 Scaffolded Research Project Zombek, Angie zombeka@uncw.edu College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts History This multi-step research project guides students through topic selection, identifying reputable primary and secondary sources, the process of writing a first draft, and revising the draft into a final paper by incorporating feedback and engaging in self-reflection.
 Upper-division undergraduates, Graduate Students Assignment Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2021-05-04
30 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:30 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Assignment: Developing Research Questions From Periodical Archives Wellman, Elizabeth wellmane@uncw.edu College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts Theatre Designed for new course, Women in Theatre, a seminar focused on cultural studies, history, and literature. Could be modified for use in range of courses with research focus. Includes assignment description and justification, instructions, goals, SLOs for assignment aligned with new IL SLOs proposed for implementation in Fall 2021, and a proposed assessment tool.

For this assignment, students are asked to choose a woman artist whose work is performed on stage (with whom they are unfamiliar) featured in an issue of The Billboard. Using The Billboard online archive only, they must find, read, and analyze a minimum of ten different articles or references to this artist. Each reference should come from a different published issue. Each reference should be quoted, cited, and explained in the style of an annotated bibliography. Using these ten sources, the student should then construct a 1-2 paragraph summary of this performer using only information from those sources (no additional Googling, searches, reading allowed). This will require students to make educated guesses and inferences based on context within the periodical and prior knowledge only. Finally, each student will compile a list of questions they were not able to answer solely based on The Billboard articles. What words, ideas, slang were unfamiliar? What did they want to look up? Where would they go to find that information? What would have helped them to understand the context? What gaps do they see in the report they were able to construct? What kinds of information does reading The Billboard offer and what kinds of information can it not offer?

The goal of this assignment is to encourage students to see themselves as researchers, rather than re-iterators, of knowledge. It also strengthens their understanding of the ways in which strong research questions can be formed, as opposed to constructed in advance of the actual beginning of the process.*

*Full assignment details available in attached document
 Upper-division undergraduates Assignment Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration university 2021-05-01
29 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:27 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Identifying connections and themes when synthesizing research literature (Assignment #9 - SWK321) Kolbe, Athena R. kolbea@uncw.edu College of Health and Human Services Social Work Students engage in a multi-stage process of identifying connections between sources, reflecting on their understanding of the scholarly discourse around a given topic, and grouping sources into themes before writing draft of part of their literature review that synthesizes the literature in each theme.
 Upper-division undergraduates, Distance Learners Assignment Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, Scholarship as Conversation university 2020-10-18
28 Fri, 07/21/2023 - 07:24 fredrikssonm 10.42.18.79 Health Issues: Tracing the Story Backwards Jones, Lindsey joneslp@uncw.edu College of Health and Human Services School of Nursing For this assignment, students will find a health-related story in the news or media. They will then trace that story backwards by searching for peer-reviewed journal articles, scientific studies, etc. The purpose of this activity is to encourage students to compare the information from the original research/study with the mainstream media presentation and reflect on how the knowledge gained through this process can translate to their professional nursing practice. I am also embedding a librarian discussion board and several videos/tutorials to help students understand and utilize resources that will help them meet the information literacy objectives.
 Upper-division undergraduates, Distance Learners Assignment Authority is Constructed and Contextual, Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration university 2020-05-30