Developing a blended learning approach to foster information literacy in German psychology education

The conception of a training program is presented which aims at fostering information literacy of German psychology students. The program will use a blended learning approach and will be adapted to the level of students' information literacy and psychological expertise. In a pilot study, meaningful differences on these variables were found between first-year students (n = 22), advanced students (n = 21), and PhD students (n = 21). In an additional information search task, first-year and advanced students tended to use different sources of information. However, these differences did not result in differential performance on the task. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.