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Critical Thinking or Learning to Copy Information Correctly?

Feinberg, Daniel E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333544533

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2012, Master of Education, University of Toledo, Educational Psychology.
Critical thinking has been a major goal of higher education institutions and academic libraries since their formation. Critical thinking is a way of processing and using information. Academic libraries as the traditional storage facilities for preserving resources and places for providing access to information have been considered information centers for academics. Throughout the 20th century, academic librarians have taught bibliographic instruction sessions; the Information Age brought about new formats of information. Information literacy instruction appeared in academic libraries by 2000 guided by the information literacy standards set forth by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Librarians therefore try to instill in students information literacy skills and critical thinking skills. One of the developmental models of critical thinking, developed by Kuhn (1999); looks at critical thinking as being made up of metacognitive, metastrategic, and epistemological meta-knowing. Critical thinking is involved in information literacy, but the key is moving beyond just learning how to locate information. Can students enter an academic library and critically evaluate the information resources? Are librarians fulfilling the role of teaching information literacy along with the required critical thinking skills for true information literacy?
Dr. Mary Ellen Edwards (Committee Chair)
Dr. Florian C. Feucht (Committee Member)
Alice Crosetto (Committee Member)
77 p.
Educational Psychology; Library Science

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  • Feinberg, D. E. (2012). Critical Thinking or Learning to Copy Information Correctly? [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333544533

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Feinberg, Daniel. Critical Thinking or Learning to Copy Information Correctly? 2012. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333544533.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Feinberg, Daniel. "Critical Thinking or Learning to Copy Information Correctly?" Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333544533

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