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To instill in future teachers the value of information literacy.
To provide future teachers with the skills necessary to incorporate some level of information literacy education into their teaching.
To begin collecting lesson plans related to Ohio competency standards that can be made available through the Web.
To pilot the use of a classroom performance system for assessment of information literacy skills.

Librarians and high school teacher developed the assessment questions.
Classroom teachers helped frame the assignment and provided assistance with the development of lesson plans.
Librarians helped students with their individual information literacy lesson plans on an as needed basis rather than as part of overall class instruction.

Information literacy lesson plan was a new addition to the course “Reading and Writing in Middle Childhood.”
Students’ overall scores on the assessment “quiz” were not conclusive – some students improved their scores, some had scores go down.
Students were surprised that they were not as information literate as they thought they were.
Faculty felt that the information literacy lesson plan challenged students to think more creatively than they would have with a more typical paper-pen assignment.
Students did not always work as a group to create information literacy lesson plans—often one person in the group developed them for the group.
Project was perhaps not as effective because of limited class time devoted to information literacy instruction. This will be addressed the next time the course is taught.

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