An Educator's Guide to Information Literacy: What Every High School Senior Needs to Know (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781591584469)

Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college.

Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; checklists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college. This book will offer help and guidance to high school teachers and librarians concerned that high school seniors are not ready to tackle the college library and college level research assignments. And it will inform students about what they need to know. Grades 9-12.

Author: Ann Marlow Riedling Ph D.
ISBN-10: 1591584469
ISBN-13: 9781591584469
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.93h x 8.45w x 0.42d

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2008 pg. 89