{"id":11664,"date":"2014-12-12T00:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2014-12-12T00:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:14:02","slug":"1200-u-s-librarians-surveyed-on-web-assessment-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/12\/12\/1200-u-s-librarians-surveyed-on-web-assessment-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"1,200 U.S. librarians surveyed on Web assessment skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key element of online search literacy appears to be going backward, rather than forward. Results from <a href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2014\/12\/youth-services\/easybib-compares-two-years-of-information-literacy-data\/\">1,200 U.S. librarians surveyed in May 2014<\/a> appear to show a &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; 29.3 percent increase, over the past two years, in the perception that students have a rudimentary understanding of web evaluation. \u201c[&#8230;] librarians feel students are now using the open web for research less than they did in 2012,\u201d the report says, \u201c[and] when students <em>are<\/em> on the open web, their evaluation skills are more lackluster.\u201d [&#8230;] 36.1 percent of the students surveyed felt that they had an advanced understanding of website evaluation, whereas only two percent of librarians considered their students to have a high degree of skill in the same area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The respondents were librarians from across the core educational spectrum, from elementary through to four-year academic institutions. 31 percent were based in high schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key element of online search literacy appears to be going backward, rather than forward. Results from 1,200 U.S. librarians &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2014\/12\/12\/1200-u-s-librarians-surveyed-on-web-assessment-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-improve-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}