Guoying Liu
Information literacy instruction for international graduate engineering students: A case study at University of Windsor
University of Windsor
recent years university windsor seen significant increase international student enrolments especially graduate engineering programs previous studies indicate international students often difficulties developing information literacy skills furthermore many engineering students lack library research skills essential succeeding academic study however scarcity studies focusing information literacy instruction international engineering students existing research area seldom utilizes statistical analysis methods determine effectiveness instruction paper aims fill literature gap examining impact information literacy session geared towards international graduate engineering students university windsor statistical analysis paired prepost survey tests reveals session significantly improved students understanding certain aspects information literacy including searching locating information areas identifying evaluating information instructions additional support integrated graduate seminars classes well offered outside classrooms beneficial students particularly areas identifying information evaluating information finding scholarly sources advanced information literacy topics