Enquiring Minds: Infiltrating the Curriculum and Challenging the Assessment Agenda

The paper was co-presented with Alison Pope, and described the research undertaken by the presenters and other Enquiring Minds project researchers (including Geoff Walton). The group had been examining the application of Information Literacy principles and 'standards', including strategies for embedding these in learning outcomes, as a means of improving the research skills and outputs of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The issue of assessment of learning outcomes, including IL requirements, also featured in the presentation. The project's work informed a book that was published in 2010 entitled 'Information Literacy: Infiltrating the Curriculum, Challenging Minds’ (eds.A.Pope and G.Walton)(Oxford: Chandos, 2010), and a co-authored article with Alison Pope entitled ‘The Enquiring Minds Project at Staffordshire University: Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum and Assessment’ (with Alison Pope and Geoff Walton), Legal Information Management, 2010 Vol 10(2), 104-108.