Challenges in finding a connection between IL education and research problem formulation

The current stage of study covers past 5 years of IL education research focusing on undergraduate engineering students. The first observations have risen a question: Could effective IL education improve students´ skills to formulate their research problems? This paper is part of a study which aims to find ways to improve students´ research skills based on the development in their information retrieval mindset. Tentative analyses have been made of 111 questionnaires and 36 seminar papers. At the current stage, observations deal with two different types of student groups. One group consists mostly of freshmen and the other group is close to their graduation.