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Helping Students Overcome Research Challenges

Learn about common frustrations faced by students during research, ranging from information overload to difficulty accessing sources. Discover strategies to support students in navigating research obstacles and succeeding in their academic pursuits.

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Helping Students Overcome Research Challenges

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  1. What Frustrates Your Students When They Conduct Research?

  2. Course-Related Research

  3. Course-Related Research • Information overload, can’t locate what is needed from online results. • Beginning and getting started on an assignment. • Trying to find the “perfect source.” • Not knowing what to look for,yet still sifting through articles that might fit. • Trouble finding books needed on library shelves.

  4. Course-Related Research • Can find the citation online, but cannot find the full-text article in a database. • Scholarly databases or library books are out of-date. • Finding statistical information online. • Having to change and refine how to write a research paper from class to class. • Not having access to same materials as professors (e.g., rare documents).

  5. Course-Related Research • Having to buy a source unavailable on campus • Trying to find the .05% of things of interest not on Web. • Feeling that nothing new is being said and feels like the same information again and again. • Conducting research to meet another’s expectations.

  6. Everyday Life Research

  7. Everyday Life Research • Too many results from a Google search needing to sort through them. • Knowing the “answer” is online, but not being able to find it. • Figuring out what is a credible source and what is not. • Figuring out if something is up to date. • Knowing that everything is not online.

  8. Everyday Life Research • Never able to find enough information on the obscure topic being searched. • Once a great source is found online, how is it found again when it is needed? • Don’t have a computer at home, so online searching for information involves some travel, especially when searching the Web. • Adapted From: Project Information Literacy Progress Report | February 2009 | Head and Eisenberg

  9. What are some things we can do to help them to succeed in spite of these challenges?

  10. Helping to Succeed • Break down projects into manageable assignments • Demonstrate and practice: • retrieving materials from the stacks • use of research databases • locating and evaluating academically appropriate web resources • encouraging research relevant to interests of students • using results ethically • Give students detailed feedback

  11. Helping to Succeed Reminder: The best resource is the Human Resource Human Resources found in: • Subject (teaching faculty) and • Research Specialists (library faculty)

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