ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Information Activity in Serious Leisure
Author: Hartel, Jenna
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leisure Time,Literature Reviews,Models,Recreational Activities,Users (Information),Behavior,Foreign Countries,Case Studies,Semi Structured Interviews,Diaries,Music,Physical Activities,Liberal Arts,Information Seeking

Background: In the past decade, scholars of information science have started to conduct research on information behaviour in serious leisure. Presently, these studies lack common concepts and terms and empirical discoveries are not easy to assemble into theory. Aim: This conceptual and methodological paper surveys the aforementioned research area and introduces Anders Hektor's model of information behaviour in conjunction with the serious leisure perspective as a means to systematically study information behaviour in serious leisure. Method: Three methods are employed. The first is a selective literature review and intellectual history of research into information behaviour in serious leisure. The second is a conceptual analysis of Hektor's model that relates its key features to the serious leisure perspective. The third consists of a deductive audit of three forms of serious leisure (the liberal arts hobby, amateur musicianship, and the hobby of running), utilising the frameworks, concepts, and terms outlined in the paper. Results: Studies of information behaviour in serious leisure have increased and deepened in the past decade, largely through idiographic case studies. Hektor's model of information behaviour, with its locus in everyday life and precise delineation of eight information activities, can complement such research designs. A deductive audit guided by Hektor's model illuminated information activities within the three forms of serious leisure and enabled comparative observations. Conclusions: When combined with the serious leisure perspective, Hektor's model enables research that is comparative and more precise. However, the extent to which this model captures physical or embodied information should be further examined. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
Supporting Better Treatments for Meeting Health Consumers' Needs: Extracting Semantics in Social Data for Representing a Consumer Health Ontology
Author: Choi, Yunseon
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Semantics,Taxonomy,Health,Access to Information,Social Media,Information Retrieval

Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for building a consumer health ontology using social tags. This would assist health users when they are accessing health information and increase the number of documents relevant to their needs. Methods: In order to extract concepts from social tags, this study conducted an empirical study on terms collected from a social networking site. The semantics of tags were analyzed and a concept list was developed by using the middle-out strategy. Analysis: This study analysed the semantic values of tags by employing Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). This is a method for extracting and representing the contextual-usage meaning of words by analyzing relationships between documents and the terms they contain and word semantics. Results: The process of building an ontology using social tags shows how using this consumer health ontology could improve user access and retrieval. It demonstrates how terms extracted from tags are related to each other with similarity and relationships within hierarchies in the ontology. Conclusion: The study has implications for better design of ontology applications that support the search for health-related resources. This will enhance the communication between health consumers and professionals. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
The Impact of CLIL on the Acquisition of L2 Competences and Skills in Primary Education
Author: Nieto Moreno de Diezmas, Esther
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,English (Second Language),Course Content,Teaching Methods,Elementary School Students,Outcomes of Education,Instructional Effectiveness,Communicative Competence (Languages),Grade 4,Spanish,Bilingual Education,Language of Instruction,Foreign Countries,Comparative Analysis,Reading Skills,Writing Skills,Listening Skills,Oral Language

The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the effectiveness of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the acquisition of English language competences (reading, writing, listening and spoken production and interaction) compared to traditional learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in primary school settings. To do so, results of CLIL and non-CLIL learners enrolled in the 4th year of primary education (9-10-year-olds) were examined and contrasted. Findings showed that the only communicative competence in which differences in favour of CLIL students were significant was spoken production and interaction. However, significant differences have also been detected in the following indicators: &quot;preparing an outline before writing&quot; (writing), &quot;understanding space-time relations&quot; (reading), and &quot;global comprehension&quot; and &quot;identification of details&quot; (listening). The confined effectiveness of CLIL may be due to the limited time of extra exposure to English, the young age of participants and the absence of any selection process for CLIL learners.
Evaluation of the Program Effectiveness of Research Competence Development in Prospective Elementary School Teachers
Author: Khan, Natalya N.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Program Evaluation,Program Effectiveness,Generalization,Elementary School Teachers,Control Groups,Research Skills,Experimental Groups,Females,Single Sex Colleges,Teacher Education Programs,Preservice Teachers,Course Descriptions,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis

To develop research competence in prospective teachers, a system of methods for diagnostics and formation of this competence in prospective elementary school teachers in the training process is designed. To diagnose the research competence, a series of techniques were used that allow subtle evaluation of each competence research component: axiological, emotional-motivational, cognitive, behavioral, and control-evaluation. These techniques also give the opportunity to assess the level of research competence formation. The study involved 102 students from Kazakh State women's teacher training university: students of the experimental group (50 people) were trained in accordance with developed methods of forming research competence; students in the control group (52 people) were engaged in a common program. The generalization of the experiment results shows that middle and low levels of research competence formation dominated in the experimental and control groups. In this study, we developed and piloted the course &quot;Approach to the research competence formation in prospective elementary school teachers&quot;. The course was tested at the Kazakh State women's teacher training university. The diagnostic results showed that the level of research competence formation increased in the experimental group, whereas in the control group, indicators remained unchanged. Statistical data processing confirmed the accuracy of the changes.
Cognitive Implications of Nominalizations in the Advancement of Scientific Discourse
Author: Bello, Iria
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computational Linguistics,English,Language Variation,Scientific Research,Schemata (Cognition),Astronomy,Correlation,Academic Discourse,Psycholinguistics

Nominalizations are well-known features of scientific writing. Scholars have been intrigued by their form and by their functions. While these features have been widely studied, the cognitive side of nominalizations in scientific texts still needs further attention. Nominalizations contribute to the advancement of discourse and at the same time add abstraction to the processes they convey and make them become more reified in the eyes of the reader. They are not mere verbal transformations as they change completely the cognitive configuration of the process they express. With examples retrieved from the astronomy subcorpus (&quot;CETA,&quot; 2012) of the &quot;Coruña Corpus&quot; the aim is to study nominalizations in the interface between cognition and language. The ultimate goal is to complement all the theoretical-descriptive studies on the topic by approaching the cognitive dimension and build a bridge for studies on the production and understanding of English scientific register.
Youth Foresight: We Will All Be Media in 2035
Author: Zhilavskaya, Irina
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Information Technology,Technological Literacy,Visualization,Generational Differences,Internet,High School Students,Conferences (Gatherings),Questionnaires,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this article is to describe the Media Environment in 2035 Foresight Session held on September 27, 2015 at Artek International Child Center during International Youth Media Forum. The event was attended by 158 school children--the winners of regional Youth Journalism contests. The researchers were entrusted with the task of identifying the specifics of modern teenagers' vision of the future; predicting of most promising media professions--from the point of view of young people; evaluating the possibilities of the emergence of new types of media and attitude towards the impending digital future. Session moderators used a variety of research methods, such as emotional deep problems study, survey of all participants with both open-end and close-end questions, elements of pedagogically organized team play offering different levels of generalization, joint analysis of the results, and divergent presentations of outcomes. The survey findings were confirmed in the course of the team game, where the school children acted as experts and provided the prognostic description of 2035 media reality. During visualization of the ideas at a higher abstraction level the obtained images were identical to those that occurred during the game. From the results of Media Environment in 2035 Foresight Session, the moderators concluded that modern teenagers feel neither threatened, nor scared of the impending future and that is significantly different from media behavior of adults.
Modern Methods in Training Professional Foreign Language for Students Majoring in Agriculture
Author: Zhyltyrova, Zhanar
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Case Studies,Problem Based Learning,Majors (Students),Agricultural Education,Class Activities,Group Discussion,Surveys,Second Language Instruction,Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),College Students

The purpose of the article is to discuss how problem-based and professionally-oriented situations and the case study method have been adapted for use in the classroom to motivate students majoring in agriculture. The content pertaining the agricultural area was taken into the consideration. The study was conducted on 33 (93) students who were divided into subgroups in doing the tasks. Discussions, class activities, group and individual presentations were carried out in classrooms, using the board and computer. The results of the survey showed that these methods are significant not only for language but also relevant for specific subject learning.
Risk Management and Disaster Recovery in Public Libraries in South Australia: A Pilot Study
Author: Velasquez, Diane L.
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Risk Management,Emergency Programs,Public Libraries,Pilot Projects,Crisis Management,Planning,Semi Structured Interviews,Administrator Attitudes,Librarian Attitudes,Coding,Grounded Theory,Misconceptions,Knowledge Level,Natural Disasters,Decision Making,Insurance,Occupational Safety and Health,Library Materials

Introduction: This paper reports the findings of a study of risk management in public libraries. The focus of the research was to determine whether the libraries had a risk management and disaster plan for major disasters. Method: A qualitative study was done to investigate risk management and disaster recovery in public libraries in South Australia. Seven personal interviews were conducted with library managers and librarians at four public libraries. Analysis: The qualitative results emerging from the interviews were analysed through hand coding using grounded theory. Results: Participants confused risk management and disaster recovery with the practice of work (occupational) health and safety. None of the participating libraries have a risk management or disaster plan. Conclusions: The library managers do not rate the risk of disaster as high, believing that their library is located in a low-risk disaster area. They also do not regard any part of their collections to be of great value. Loss of a collection is perceived as an opportunity to refresh that collection. The participants do not consider risk management and disaster recovery as an important part of their business. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
Information Literacy in the Tension between School's Discursive Practice and Students' Self-Directed Learning
Author: Gärdén, Cecilia
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Literacy,Educational Practices,Independent Study,Qualitative Research,Case Studies,Interviews,Observation,Information Seeking,Intellectual Disciplines,Knowledge Level,Ethnography,Adult Education,Nursing Education,Allied Health Occupations Education,Librarians,Library Research,Library Role,Teacher Role,School Libraries,Foreign Countries,Questioning Techniques,Interaction

Introduction: Self-guided learning has had a major impact on adult education, where information seeking and use are key aspects of learning. With their lack of experience in study contexts, the students are nevertheless assumed to develop information literacy. Method: The paper aims to create an understanding of how information literacy can be recognised in the tension between the schools' practice and the students' self-directed learning. This is done through a qualitative case study including forty-three interviews, thirty observations and seventeen documents, which gave in-depth knowledge of information activities in relation to a complex school assignment. Analysis: Using a socio-cultural perspective, the analysis led to the identification of several critical aspects of information literacy. Results: The aspects included the distinction between quantitative and qualitative information seeking, critical approaches towards information, knowledge of genres, the ability to identify and use various tools, and the ability to communicate conceptually about information seeking and use. Conclusions: The findings reveal an absence of interaction about information seeking and use in the educational context, as well as a lack of common references in the form of tools and support, leading to difficulties for the students in achieving the results that were expected according to learning objectives. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
The Experience of Evidence-Based Practice in an Australian Public Library: An Ethnography
Author: Gillespie, Ann
Date: 2016-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Evidence Based Practice,Public Libraries,Ethnography,Librarians,Information Scientists,Interviews,Observation,Content Analysis,Data Analysis,Organizational Culture

Introduction: This paper presents the findings from a project that investigated the lived experiences of library and information professionals in relation to evidence-based practice within an Australian public library. Method: The project employed ethnography, which allows holistic description of people's experiences within a particular community or cultural setting. A member of the research team visited a public library regularly over a six month period. Data collection comprised interviews, observation and document analysis. A field journal was also maintained where daily activities and interactions were recorded. Analysis: Ethnography involves many levels of iterative analysis. Data extracts were identified, grouped and further refined whilst maintaining the context of the whole experience of the culture. Results: Evidence-based practice is experienced in the library through four interconnected and interdependent cultural orientations: (i) culture of valuing; (ii) culture of being; (iii) culture of learning; and (iv) culture of leading. These orientations represent not only how evidence-based practice is experienced in the library but also how it has been enabled. Conclusions: Context or environment is significant in terms of library and information service professionals' understanding of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice can be beneficial to all such professionals, as it builds professional knowledge and deeper understandings of practice at all levels of professional experience. [Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC): The Information Behaviour Conference, Part 1 (11th, Zadar, Croatia, September 20-23, 2016).]
Social Phenomenological Analysis as a Research Method in Art Education: Developing an Empirical Model for Understanding Gallery Talks
Author: Hofmann, Fabian
Date: 2016-12-13
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Art Education,Phenomenology,Research Methodology,Educational Research,Nonschool Educational Programs,Correlation,Museums,Case Studies,Surveys,Participant Observation

Social phenomenological analysis is presented as a research method to study gallery talks or guided tours in art museums. The research method is based on the philosophical considerations of Edmund Husserl and sociological/social science concepts put forward by Max Weber and Alfred Schuetz. Its starting point is the everyday lifeworld; the researcher interprets the phenomena that can be observed there as an individual, intersubjectively accessible reflection of subjective meaning. This approach is suitable for research projects that seek correlations and structures of certain typical situations in domains that are theoretically few prestructured. The article explains the methodological principles, the use and the profit of this research method.
Listening to the Voices of Struggling Students: A Literature Review
Author: Blaauw, Janet
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Primary Education,Elementary School Students,Secondary School Students,At Risk Students,Student Attitudes,Learner Engagement,Teacher Student Relationship,Trust (Psychology),Literature Reviews,Student Empowerment,Student Participation,Nontraditional Education,Student Development,Emotional Development,Interpersonal Competence,Skill Development,Integrated Curriculum

Children in mainstream schools who struggle academically and disengage in regular schooling may be helped when teachers change their practice to include what the students themselves have reported makes a difference. Student voices need to be listened to, not as a token gesture, but as a way of making a positive difference in their lives at school and therefore strengthen their ability to be a successful member of society in the future.
Planning for Sustainability from the Outset
Author: Bourne, Janet
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Sustainability,Instructional Innovation,Gifted,Talent Development,Faculty Development,Educational Change,Teamwork,Power Structure,Educational Planning,Foreign Countries

What are the elements of professional learning that lead to an increase of the likelihood of new learning and understandings being embedded into teacher practices? This article details some of the strategies the author has successfully employed to establish a context whereby an innovation would be sustained past the time of the Ministry Gifted and Talented Education contract. A &quot;wedge model&quot; was adopted so that over time, the balance of responsibility and power shifted from her as facilitator, to the staff through a range of collaborative processes.
How Can Innovative Learning Environments Promote the Diffusion of Innovation?
Author: Osborne, Mark
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Environment,Innovation,Educational Innovation,Capacity Building,Scholarship,Systems Approach,Organizational Communication,Time Management,Social Systems

Schools implementing innovative learning environments (ILEs) face many challenges, including the need to discard previously cherished practices and behaviours, adjust mindsets, and invent successful new ways of operating. Leaders can support these processes by implementing structures that: i) support ongoing, distributed, participatory innovation; and ii) promote the widespread diffusion of these innovations. This article will argue that innovative learning environments provide unique opportunities to accelerate the generation and diffusion of innovation, particularly through high levels of observability and trialability of ideas; effective communication channels; and supportive social systems. In short, successful open, collaborative learning environments require serial innovation and rapid diffusion of innovation, but they also provide the conditions to support both of these processes.
The Sigmoid Curve as a Metaphor for Growth and Change
Author: Hipkins, Rosemary
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Technological Advancement,Information Technology,Figurative Language,Mathematics,Change,Population Growth,Biology,Technology Uses in Education,Foreign Countries

This paper introduces sigmoid or s-curve as a metaphor for describing the dynamics of change. We first encountered the s-curve as a description of a possible growth trajectory whereby populations become established, begin to flourish and the numbers increase rapidly until they reach some limit. At this point, the growth rate slows rapidly then stops and the size of the population is either maintained, something happens to stimulate a further upsurge in growth, or there is a dramatic decline. This basic biological metaphor has been picked up by social science researchers, particularly those who are interested in the complex dynamics of change and adaptation over time. The s-curve metaphor is now applied beyond population growth to describe change dynamics in social systems. We have noted this situation of rapid change followed by stability, further growth or subsequent decline in a number of projects we have worked on. The contributors to this special section discuss examples of this change pattern across a range of contexts.