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Evidence-Based Learning Approach in Evaluation of Information Literacy Education

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Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century (ECIL 2014)

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The main aim of the paper is to present continuing research as a tool for more effective achievement of educational goals defined within information literacy (IL) education. Our primary resource is proven knowledge of the evidence-based learning approach, which we applied to information literacy education. Our article is designed as a series of case studies, each using different research methods inspired by Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Evaluation Model. We focus on this particular model, because it corresponds with our aim to strengthen students’ satisfaction and learning results. Each level of the model defines research objectives, achievable by application of different research methods. In our paper we present the practical application of selected research methods (implemented in IL lessons) to address each of the four evaluation levels. The described methods can be flexibly combined in order to obtain a complete picture of the real efficiency of investigated learning activity.

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  1. Faculty of Arts, Division of Information and Library Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Pavla Kovářová & Gabriela Šimková

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  4. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  5. University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Ralph Catts

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Kovářová, P., Šimková, G. (2014). Evidence-Based Learning Approach in Evaluation of Information Literacy Education. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_59

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