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Our Students Don't Know How to Do Research
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Our Students Don't Know How to Do Research
Revision of a speaker series presentation done for Information 2.0: Knowledge in the Digital Age, La Guardia Community College, NY. March, 2010. William Badke
Part One: The Challenge of Information Literacy
Ten Sweeping but True Generalizations
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3. Many faculty are locking into the pessimistic view that student research, while dismal, is the best we can get.
1. Most students have minimal research skills
2. Most students do not develop significantly better skills by simply doing research (the research by osmosis theory).
5. Few faculty believe it is possible to train students to become significantly better researchers.
7. Most students have no concept of what better research skills would look like and are resistant to further training.
4. Many faculty believe that poor performance in student research is a factor of poor motivation, poor time management and laziness.
6. Most students believe they have adequate to good academic research skills, though any test of those skills will show that they do not.
10. The lack of information handling ability among university students is the biggest blind spot in higher education today.
8. Even if it were possible to advance student research skills, most faculty do not have the time within their courses to allow for research training beyond an hour or so per semester.
9. Even if it were possible to advance student research skills, most faculty do not believe that such an enterprise is relatively important enough to pursue vigorously.