Teaching Information and Study Skills (ISS) to HE students in FE: An investigation into the impact of varying approaches of structure for delivery on student performance at Northampton College
Masniza Sore
Abstract:
This study is an investigation into the impact of the Information and Study Skills (ISS) delivery to Higher National Diploma (HND) students with three different degrees of embedding and time-table integration – timetabled through-out the academic year, six-week compulsory programme and optional to students. It also aims to discover students’ perceived value for each skill and their confidence in applying the information and study skills towards their independent learning. Issues associated with the integration of the programme into curriculum are discussed in particular students’ perception of the skills’ value towards their learning process together with their internet search strategy abilities.
Acknowledgements:
This study was for my dissertation for MSc in E-learning with Edinburgh University. It was fully funded by my employer – Northampton College.
Presenter: Masniza Sore
I joined Northampton College in June 2004 as a Learning Facilitator with the main responsibility of providing a user education programme in the college library. I now lead the team of facilitators as co-ordinator of the programme. I developed my interest in Information Skills and e-learning which led me to achieving an MSc in E-learning with Edinburgh University. I am a committee member on Jisc’s East Midlands Information Skills group since 2005. I designed and implemented the Information Skills programme embedded into curriculum at the College in 2006 and which was awarded the AoC Beacon Award 2011-2012.
