Using Peer Mentors to Promote Information Fluency

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Author(s) and Contributors:
Author(s): Farhan Mustafa Jeff Overholtzer John Tombarge Ashley Hodgson
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Presentation(s): Annual Conferences
ParentTopics:
Mentoring Information Literacy

Abstract

A professor, a librarian, and an instructional technologist team up to recruit and train five students who act as peer mentors for students enrolled in a multisection statistics course. The strategy efficiently provides information fluency skills to students in the course, which is both technology- and research-intensive.

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