The citation behaviours and the academic performance of first-year Political Science students

Atkinson, Douglas and Thornton, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-440X 2022. The citation behaviours and the academic performance of first-year Political Science students. European Political Science 21 , pp. 292-307. 10.1057/s41304-021-00333-x

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Abstract

This research will utilise citation analysis to explore the information behaviours of a cohort of first-year Political Science students at a university in the UK. Using a dataset of the citation behaviour of 262 students, we find that students who locate and cite particular sources of information receive better grades than those that do not. These findings suggest that students who know how to locate and subsequently cite these sources—which tend to be those regarded as more reliable and of higher quality—will achieve higher grades on their course work. This might sound obvious, but such assumptions are rarely checked; furthermore, such findings might convince doubtful students—and staff—to take information literacy more seriously.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN:	1680-4333
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 May 2021
Date of Acceptance:	6 April 2021
Last Modified:	12 May 2023 11:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/141191

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