As I took the Trails assessment on information literacy, I noticed I took less time on the questions that asked me to draw on the research skills I grew up on. Meaning, I was able to connect those questions to how I did research in the past. When I came across a question I had no schema with, or practice with, I took a longer time reading the question, comprehending it, and answering the question…these were questions that were asking me about more current ways to research. I was very uncomfortable with vocabulary like truncation, physical forms, tertiary sources, web site coverage…terminology I don’t have a lot of experience with. I was also surprised that I don’t know much about copyrighted material, and the differences between libraries.
This tells me that for kids, we need to increase targeted vocabulary to decrease their clunks…hang-ups.
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