Information literacy: a review of the research: a guide for practitioners and researchers /

Includes index and bibliography.

Chapter one: Introduction to information literacy --
Chapter two: Stages of the research process: Questions and wonders --
Finds and sorts --
Consumes and absorbs --
Thinks and creates --
Summarizes and concludes --
Communicates --
Reflects on process and product --
Chapter three: Issues in information literacy: Information overload --
Attitudes and motivation --
Working with specific groups of students --
Conflict between behaviorist and constructivist approaches --
Standards movement and inquiry --
Adult expertise and information literacy --
Will teachers teach information literacy? --
Consuming and absorbing what? --
Academic achievement and information literacy --
Cut and clip mentality: or, the ethical use of information --
Chapter four: promising techniques: Cooperative learning --
Cultivating habits of mind --
Constructivist strategies --
Integration of information skills into content instruction --
Helping students and teachers develop their own --
Research model --
Collaborating with the I-search process --
Using the schedule and time to advantage --
Building a collaborative planning role --
Teaching text structure --
Concept mapping --
Pacing learners through the research process --
Providing a high-quality information environment --
Doing your own action research --
Principal's role in information literacy --
Chapter five: Good ideas and resources for keeping current: Keeping current --
Helps for teachers and library media specialists --
Helps for parents --
Resources for steps of the research process for young people --
Chapter six: For the researcher: Models of information literacy-a timeline --
Research reviews --
Related models and applications --
Index to citations --
Subject index