Integrating Brain-Based Strategies Into Library Research Assignments College freshman-level research assignments and Information Literacy (IL) lessons share common goals: familiarize students with library resources, help students identify and develop effective research strategies, and provide students with skills to synthesize information into their own work. Applying brain-based learning theories to these research assignments and IL lessons can create interactions that not only achieve the identified goals, but can also mitigate some of the stress in research and composition and provide a more palatable context for library training. Specifically, modeling research strategies in assignments that tap into the strong feelings and values of college students provide the opportunity for building rapport and the context for more comfortable and animated student research. |