Promoting Critical Thinking, and Information Instruction in a Biochemistry Course.
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The explosive growth of the amount of information requires students to achieve competency in retrieving, managing, analyzing, and using information effectively. To help students function successfully in the information era, librarians need to focus on developing students' critical thinking and transferable learning abilities. This article describes a one-shot instruction session that teaches biochemistry students how to access, search, and evaluate information sources.
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