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Connecting with Students

Connecting with Students. Using Case Studies to Teach Research Skills. Sharon Murphy, MLS, AHIP, RN Health Sciences Library - University at Buffalo. Our Scenario. A “one-shot” lecture introducing new students to library research. Sound familiar?. What did we do?.

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Connecting with Students

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  1. Connecting with Students Using Case Studies to Teach Research Skills Sharon Murphy, MLS, AHIP, RN Health Sciences Library - University at Buffalo

  2. Our Scenario A “one-shot” lecture introducing new students to library research. Sound familiar?

  3. What did we do? UB Librarian and School of Nursing instructor teamed up used case studies for 3 years to introduce and foster research skills to 90 freshman nursing students each Fall semester

  4. What’s a Case Study? Case studies are…. stories with an educational message Clyde Freeman Herreid

  5. Objectives • engage students in recognizing when information is needed • foster the ability to find, retrieve, evaluate, and use it Information Literacy Defined – ACRL Web Site

  6. Our Vehicles • UB’s award-winning • Library wiki • 2 hour class http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/dokuwiki/hslwiki/doku.php?id=nur101

  7. These vehicles were jumpstarts to help students… • Refine research questions • Explore library and internet resources • Constantly ask: Is this resource credible? Trustworthy?Does it add to my knowledge base? • Use another case study to hone research skills • Understand ethical and legal usage of information

  8. Sample Case Studies • Not an Old Person’s Disease Jennifer Miskowski and Anne Galbraith, University of Wisconsin—La Cross http://www.sciencecases.org/melanoma/melanoma1.asp • Andrea: The Death of a Diabetic Clyde F. Herreid, University at Buffalo http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/diabetic/diabetic.html • And many others http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

  9. The Results • Engaged students • Improved quality of research papers • Random, anonymous, index card sampling of students – uniformly positive comments • Structured but flexible approach

  10. Conclusions • Successful model to teach effective research skills • Fun for instructors and students • Librarian/instructor/student partnership a “win-win” solution

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