Improving Student Research  

This guide was modified from a guide created by Thomas Heverin at Temple University. Permission was granted to replicate its contents and to make revisions specific to the BGSU environment.

The Sample Assignments rubric was modified from one developed by a faculty learning community at Miami University on research fluency.  

Librarians at BGSU formed a faculty learning community through the campus Center for Teaching and Learning. The title of this Learning Community is Understanding Student Information-seeking Behaviors to Enhance Student Learning. Members of this learning community have explored ways to improve students’ abilities to contend with obstacles inherent in the research project. They have also had opportunities to become more familiar with the University Libraries’ research tools and reflect on ways to enhance student learning. This guide pulls together the readings on student research habits and recommendations from faculty about how to improve the student research experience.

Pictured left to right: Colleen Boff; Catherine Cassara; Ann Westrick; Cheryl Hoy; Jacquelyn Cuneen; Beatrice Guenther; Vera Lux; Rebecca Pobocik.

Learning Community Facilitators:
Coleen Boff, University Libraries
Vera Lux, UL

Faculty Members:

Colleen Boff, UL
Catherine Cassara, Journalism/PR
Lynn Darby, Exercise Physiology
Elizabeth Fleitz Kuechenmeister, GSW
Cheryl Hoy, GSW
Nicole Kalaf-Hughes, Political Science
Cynthia Mahaffey, GSW and Women's Studies

Learning Community Facilitators:
Colleen Boff, University Libraries
Cathi Cardwell, Fall, UL
Vera Lux, Spring, UL

Faculty Members:
Catherine Cassara, Journalism/PR
Jacquelyn Cuneen, HMSLS
Beatrice Guenther, ROCS/French
Cheryl Hoy, GSW
Rebecca Pobocik, SFCS
Ann Westrick, GSW