1. Information Fluency, Critical Thinking, and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy Nancy A. Stanlick, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy and Robert Slade Burnett Honors College Student FCTL Winter Faculty Development Conference December 12, 2006

2. UCF Department of Philosophy Information Fluency Participation: IF, Critical Thinking and Ethics Pilot Project with Three Elements: Research, Teaching, Service University Research IF Faculty Fellow For IF, Critical Thinking, & Ethics Academic Integrity Applications, VR Department Teaching IF & Subject- Specific Pre & Post Tests GEP Assessment Direct & Indirect Assessments University Service International Conferences on IF & Ethics 2007-2009

3. UCF/IF/Philosophy Conference  Heresy, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression January 18-20, 2007 (Student Union) See http://www.if.ucf.eduhttp://www.if.ucf.edu  Conference Program  Registration Information Free for UCF participants and attendees

4. Bibliography -- IF and Ethics  Articles in Philosophy on IF and Ethics/Critical Thinking  1. Kapitzke, Cushla Information Literacy: A Positivist Epistemology and a Politics of  Outformation, Educational Theory, vol. 52 no. 1, pp. 37-53, Winter 2003  2. Kellner, Douglas New Technologies/New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the  New Millennium Source: Philosophy of Education, pp. 21-36, 2000; ISSN1575-6866  Web Sites  1. Interdisciplinary Study of Information Technology (ISIT)  http://www.drake.edu/cdtl/ISIT/info.html http://www.drake.edu/cdtl/ISIT/info.html  2. Tuana, Nancy Moral Literacy  http://www.rps.psu.edu/0305/literacy.html http://www.rps.psu.edu/0305/literacy.html  3. Critical Thinking & Information Literacy Across the Curriculum  http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/lmc/ilac/Overview/default.htm http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/lmc/ilac/Overview/default.htm

5. PHI 2010H SLOs & Assessments  SLOs To learn to use and evaluate information sources in philosophy specifically, on the Internet, in the UCF Library To use this information in appropriate ways.  Assessments Pre- and Post-Tests on Information Fluency Web-Site Evaluation Document (Student Generated)

6. Pre/Post-Test Contents For PHI 2010H (Honors Introduction to Philosophy) Subject-Specific Internet Resources Information Literacy

7. Pre/Post-Test Results Pre-Test ScoresPost-Test Scores 7 12 15 11 13 11 13 0 15 12 16 30 18 21 22 13 20 18 22 18 20 24 18 0 20 22 30 18 14 0 18 Pre-Test Average: 10.29 Median: 12 Post-Test Average: 19.38 Median: 20

8. Student Internet Evaluation  Robert Slade  Chair of Web Site Evaluation Document Committee in PHI 2010H, Honors Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2006  See http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/IFRobertSlad e.ppt for his PowerPoint Presentation, and http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/IFRobertSlad e.ppt  See http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/Philosophyan dIFFCTLWintConference2006Doc2Students.ppt for Contents of the Student’s Document http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/Philosophyan dIFFCTLWintConference2006Doc2Students.ppt