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The Survey of American College Students: Student Library Research Practices & Skills
Primary Research Group, June 2009, Pages: 150+
This report looks closely at the research practices and skills of a sample of 400 U.S. college students. The 150+ page report presents detailed data on just how American college students use their library to complete research assignments. The report answers questions such as: which American students are being assigned research papers and which are not? What research sources do students use to complete their research assignments? Which use only major search engines or Wikipedia? Which use print resources? Library furnished databases? How familiar are students with the concept of plagiarism? Are students confident in their research abilities? Do they know how to use citation software? DO they feel that their librarians help them to use the available resources?
The study also gives detailed information on how their professors advise them to use the library, and how comfortable they feel about their research skills and how helpful librarians have been in helping them in their research. Data is broken out by more than 16 criteria including gender, income level, type and size of college, mean SAT acceptance score of the college, and many other variables. Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
- Only about 47% of students are sure that they have ever been required to turn in a research paper exceeding 10 double spaced typed pages in length for any of their classes.
- More than 86% of students say that they understand the concept of plagiarism 'well' or 'very well'.
- 64% of students sampled say that they know how to contact a librarian online.
- 55.2% of the students in the sample had not asked for help from a librarian within the past year.
- Nearly 29% of students say that Google, Yahoo and other major search engine searches were the most important information source for their last research assignment.
- More than 9% of information needed for research papers was sourced from Wikipedia or other wickis.
- The higher the grade point average the less information for research papers was obtained from search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
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