A collaborative partnership to enhance Research Skills Development (RSD) for teacher education students

The First Year Higher Education experience in information literacy (IL) is pivotal to continued student engagement in development of research skills. At the University of Tasmania a collaborative partnership between the Faculty of Education and the Library has seen the development of an innovative model of information literacy that is scaffolded quite heavily in the first year where support is most needed, thus enhancing first year learning outcomes. The model extends to all degrees offered by the Faculty, spanning an entire degree allowing incremental learning to occur from first year to graduation, and beyond. Students gradually achieve autonomy and become self directed learners