Integración de competencias de información al currículo de la Facultad de Estudios Generales de la Universidad de Puerto Rico: curso 4105 de Ciencias Biológicas

Abstract

With the broad adoption of information technologies in academic institutions it is now imperative for teachers to strengthen or develop those skills that will help students search information, and manage it effectively and ethically, not only during their academic years but throughout their lives. This article focusses in the assessment of student information skills in a general education course at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus which discusses current controversies in biological sciences. The paper presents the incorporation of strategies to strengthen the use of information skills, based on student academic needs assessment over several academic semesters. The strategies and the evaluation instruments as well as the results of assessment activities carried out with a group of students throughout one semester will also be presented. The success of those strategies will be evaluated and the importance of information literacy in a General Studies Faculty will be discussed.