ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Library Experience and Information Literacy Learning of First Year International Students: An Australian Case Study
Author: Hughes, Hilary
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Freshmen,Foreign Students,Users (Information),College Libraries,Information Literacy,Case Studies,Qualitative Research,Use Studies,Information Seeking,Student Research,Assignments,Library Services,Information Needs,Questionnaires,Semi Structured Interviews,Student Attitudes

This qualitative case study provides fresh understandings about first year undergraduate international students' library and information use at an Australian university, and their associated information literacy learning needs. The findings provide evidence to inform the development of library spaces and information literacy responses that enhance international students' transition and learning. The study was conducted in 2015 as part of a project that simultaneously investigated the same topic at three US universities. This paper presents the case study context, reviews relevant literature and identifies gaps in research about international students' library use and information literacy, and outlines the qualitative methodology--questionnaire, interviews and thematic analysis. The findings reveal international students' lived experiences of using the library and information, in general and for assignments. After presenting the students' recommendations to the library, the paper discusses the wider implications of the findings for university libraries and information literacy innovation.
Measuring Library Impacts through First Year Course Assessment
Author: Luetkenhaus, Holly
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Freshmen,Library Instruction,Information Literacy,Outcomes of Education,Library Skills,Skill Development,Student Research,Research Papers (Students),Correlation,College Libraries,Essays,Citations (References),Writing Skills

This study shows the value of library instruction in the building of first-year students' information literacy skills and it illustrates librarians as partners in leading student learning outcome assessment. Using research papers from a required first-year course, raters from units across the institution evaluated student information literacy (IL) skill development. Students performed at a &quot;Proficient First Year&quot; level for most information literacy skill areas. The authors found there was a significant correlation between IL skill development and participation in one or more library instruction sessions. For this reason, the authors posit that liaison librarians are in a stronger and more stable collaborative position when they can demonstrate that their work has positive correlations with student learning.
The Utility of Storytelling Strategies in the Biology Classroom
Author: Csikar, Elizabeth
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Story Telling,Biology,Science Instruction,Anatomy,Physiology,Community Colleges,College Science,Quasiexperimental Design,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Two Year College Students,Undergraduate Students,Critical Thinking,Thinking Skills,Pretests Posttests,Learning

Conveying scientific information with high intrinsic cognitive load to students is a challenge. Often, students do not have the existing schema to incorporate the information in a comprehensive manner. One method that has shown promise is storytelling. Storytelling has been successfully used to convey public health information to non-experts. Therefore, it was of interest to determine whether storytelling could be used in the classroom to present information with high intrinsic load to students in a meaningful manner. This study used a post-test only quasi-experimental study design to explore the utility of storytelling as an instructional strategy in anatomy and physiology classes at a community college. Students in the treatment group received instruction that used storytelling to present examples of application. Both control and experimental groups were assessed through the use of a proximal formative quiz, distal multiple-choice questions, and a novel critical thinking exercise administered after the instruction. Results suggest that storytelling was as effective as the instructional methods delivered to the control group. These findings suggest that storytelling may be used as a means to convey complex scientific information in the classroom.
SoTL in the LIS Classroom: Helping Future Academic Librarians Become More Engaged Teachers
Author: McNiff, Lindsay
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scholarship,Instruction,Learning,Information Science Education,Library Science,Information Science,Academic Libraries,Librarians,Teaching Methods,Information Literacy

In this paper, we share background and key considerations of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and propose introducing library and information science (LIS) students to SoTL as a way to acquaint them with the higher education teaching profession. Throughout the article, we employ reflection as the primary consideration and support structure that frames the benefits of SoTL for instructional growth. Four critical stages of SoTL training, first suggested by Gale and Golde (2004), are recommended for LIS students: &quot;Exposure,&quot; &quot;Encounter,&quot; &quot;Engagement,&quot; and &quot;Extension.&quot; As instruction responsibilities and opportunities continue to expand in academic librarianship, teaching about SoTL using the four stages may prepare LIS students to quickly adjust to their new roles and engage with other teaching faculty. This article fills a gap in the literature on SoTL in LIS instruction curricula.
Setting Them up for Success: Assessing a Pre-Research Assignment for First-Year International Students
Author: Avery, Susan
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Literacy,Scientific Literacy,Search Strategies,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Language Teachers,Library Instruction,Foreign Students,Student Needs,College Students,Library Research,Student Adjustment,Information Retrieval,Databases,Concept Mapping,Librarians,Librarian Teacher Cooperation,College Faculty,Research Skills,Teaching Methods

As the international student population continues to grow, librarians must adjust their instruction to meet the needs of students who are adapting to a new country, culture, and language. This study assesses first-year international students as they engage in the research process through the completion of concept maps that precede database searches. Librarians assessed concept maps of international students completed prior to information literacy instruction to better understand the difficulties they experienced defining research topics and identifying keywords and alternatives. The results of this assessment provide a deeper understanding of the challenges first-year international students face with creating search strategies. Ultimately, this study resulted in more meaningful relationships between librarians and English as a second language (ESL) instructors, and effective adaptations to ESL library instruction.
The Intersection of Information and Science Literacy
Author: Klucevsek, Kristin
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Information Literacy,Scientific Literacy,Science Process Skills,Scholarship,Periodicals,Scientific and Technical Information,Information Dissemination,Information Seeking,Evaluative Thinking,Credibility,Information Sources,Access to Information

To achieve higher science literacy, both students and the public require discipline-specific information literacy in the sciences. Scientific information literacy is a core component of the scientific process. In addition to teaching how to find and evaluate resources, scientific information literacy should include teaching the process of scholarship as a conversation and publication in the sciences. Faculty and librarians can be challenged in their efforts to teach students because of limited access to published research. Stronger scientific information literacy and more access to scholarly research could improve science literacy as a whole.
Privacy Literacy: From Theory to Practice
Author: Wissinger, Christina L.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Library Services,Privacy,Theory Practice Relationship,Social Media,Library Instruction,Critical Thinking,Literacy

Libraries and librarians have dealt with patron privacy issues since their inception, often serving as educators and advocates. In today's social media-filled landscape, patron privacy has moved from the safeguarding of traditional library records to the creation, use, and ownership of information maintained in an online world. As the core educators for many aspects of literacy, librarians need to keep pace with the issues their users face daily. This paper centers on privacy literacy as an independent area of instruction for library sessions. It reviews a theoretical framework to support privacy literacy instruction and showcases resources and tools for creating privacy literacy education. Finally, privacy issues in healthcare are used to demonstrate the potential impact of privacy literacy instruction.
The Reconquista Student: Critical Information Literacy, Civics, and Confronting Student Intolerance
Author: Cope, Jonathan T.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Critical Literacy,Information Literacy,Civics,Citizenship Education,Student Attitudes,Social Attitudes,Negative Attitudes,Stranger Reactions,Democracy,Cultural Pluralism,Librarians,College Libraries,College Students,Political Attitudes,Racial Bias,Inclusion,Library Role,Attitude Change,Intellectual Freedom

Given the increasing power and prominence of political figures in the United States who openly espouse xenophobic, misogynistic, white nationalist positions, it is only natural to anticipate encountering students who express these views in our libraries and classrooms. This essay uses a classroom encounter with a student expressing xenophobic sentiments as a way to explore the following questions: As someone heavily influenced by a great deal of Critical Information Literacy (CIL) literature, why was I so flummoxed upon encountering this student's perspective? Why did I find the intellectual resources that I had drawn from to shape my classroom pedagogy inadequate? Using the methods of normative political theory, the essay draws from CIL literature emphasizing intuitional questioning and resistance, and civic education literature emphasizing institutional participation. The essay concludes by arguing that the political theorist Chantal Mouffe's radical democratic pluralism provides librarians with a theoretical framework that can accommodate both insurgency and institutional participation when encountering intolerance.
&quot;Places of Remembrance&quot;: Spaces for Historical and Political Literacy. A Lesson Report
Author: Offen, Susanne
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Studies,Citizenship Education,Social Systems,Crime,War,Historical Interpretation,Vocational Schools,Educational Media,Place Based Education,Political Attitudes,Teaching Methods,Controversial Issues (Course Content),Foreign Countries,Observation

Purpose: The article shows the use of specific educational media in social studies in vocational schools to foster a differentiated historical and political literacy. Design/methodology/approach: Accordingly, the article examines a sequence of lessons taught by the author in a vocational classroom, fostering reflexive historical-political awareness of Germany's post-war coping with the fascist constitution 1933-1945 and specifically of contemporary legal proceedings concerning the persecution and subsequent murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust. Findings: Teaching techniques comprise explorative learning through guided city walks, document analysis and expert visits, in-class-discussions, the and individual student-teacher-conversations and, particularly, contact with exhibits employed as educational media, originating from an art exhibition in public space covering various unsettling steps of exclusion against Jewish citizens before 1942. These materials turn out to bridge the gap from ignorance to learning by the acquisition of knowledge, demonstrating the use of artistic visual representations as educational media in the social studies classroom, especially while addressing students with little prior knowledge and understanding. Research limitations/implications: As a lesson report, the article draws on classroom observations. Practical implications: The approach presented includes various implications for classroom application.
Determination of Secondary Students&apos; Preferences Regarding Design Features Used in Digital Textbooks
Author: Öngöz, Sakine
Date: 2017-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary School Students,Textbook Research,Electronic Publishing,Design Preferences,Textbook Preparation,Mixed Methods Research,Opinions,Student Surveys,Usability,Foreign Countries

The aim of this study was to determine secondary school students' choice of design features for digital textbooks. As a part of the research--which was conducted using a mixed technique--a literature review was carried out to source points to consider in the designing of digital textbooks and experts' opinions were obtained. Based on the results, an 88-question survey was then developed to elicit the preferences of secondary school students with regard to design features for digital textbooks. Also, in this study, three digital textbooks with different design features--but with the same content--were developed to be used by the students. The students were then informed about digital textbook technology by researchers and the digital textbooks were made available to them. Finally, the survey was administered in four separate sessions, and the results were revealed by analysis of the data collected. The findings showed that students would rather see digital books with a front page, back page and bookplate. They also pointed out that elements for switching between pages are necessary along with the table of contents, index, glossary and search tools. Lastly, they expressed a desire for images in digital textbooks, especially three-dimensional lifelike drawings, videos and animations.
Making &quot;Good&quot; or &quot;Critical&quot; Citizens: From Social Justice to Financial Literacy in the Québec Education Program
Author: Lefrançois, David
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Content Analysis,Critical Thinking,Citizenship Education,Social Sciences,Money Management,Social Justice,Foreign Countries

Purpose: The Québec Ministry of Education has introduced--as of September 2017--a new mandatory course focusing on financial literacy and addressing such issues as credit scores, loans, taxes and budgets. This announcement has created intense educational debate on the &quot;raison d'être&quot; and content of the course. This article will summarise the heated debate and will examine content knowledge and the type of &quot;good&quot; citizens that the course seeks to create. Method: We use thematic content analysis to identify textual patterns and themes in the Québec Education Program (QEP) pertaining to financial literacy. Findings: Our assumption is that the QEP reproduces and shapes a personally responsible citizen at the expense of systemic criticism and justice-oriented citizenship education, according to Westheimer and Kahne (2004)'s typology.
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Turkey
Author: Sen, Abdulkerim
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Citizenship Education,Civil Rights,Educational Trends,Educational History,Politics of Education,Islam,Ideology,Nationalism,Religious Factors,Trend Analysis,International Organizations,Educational Change,Curriculum Development,Textbooks,Archives,Power Structure,Semi Structured Interviews,Discourse Analysis

Purpose: This article shows the effects of competing political forces on citizenship education in Turkey during the period of commitment to European Union (EU) accession (1999-2005). Methodology: It draws on textbooks, archival documents and interviews. Whilst Turkey had a history of civic education to promote a secular national ethos and identity, the post-Cold War democratisation movement encouraged the Turkish government in 1995 to attempt to internationalise civics by adding human rights themes. Findings: This effort occurred at a time when the hegemony of the secular nationalist establishment was challenged by the electoral rise of an Islamist party. Although Citizenship and Human Rights course suited the purposes of the secular nationalist establishment, after the EU recognised Turkey as a candidate in 1999, a new political Islamist government, elected in 2002, chose first to align the course with its ideology and later decided to repeal it. By exploring the evolution of the curriculum in a crucial period in which political power was switching from the ideology of secular nationalism to that of religious (Islamist) nationalism, the present study illustrates ways in which external and internal influences may affect citizenship education. In particular, it contributes to debates over the role of international agencies in curriculum change in citizenship education.
Are Listening Skills Best Enhanced through the Use of Multimedia Technology
Author: Sejdiu, Sejdi
Date: 2017-12-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Listening Skills,Multimedia Instruction,Second Language Learning,Listening Comprehension,Computer Assisted Instruction,Quasiexperimental Design,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,English (Second Language),Elementary School Students,Statistical Analysis,Instructional Effectiveness,Outcomes of Education,Pretests Posttests,Multimedia Materials,Foreign Countries

Listening comprehension is essential to L2 learning. Pupils who are able to demonstrate L2 listening skills are able to demonstrate proficiency in other language skills. Due to the relatively unappreciated role of listening in language development, educators and language experts have been actively promoting the equal or emphasized enhancement of listening skills among students. Through multimedia, L2 speakers are provided access to several visual and aural L2 texts via audio, video, the Internet, podcasts, blogs and others. The use of multimedia in listening instrument aims to ultimately assist L2 learners in understanding L2 within the everyday context. The use of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) programmes have been heralded as effective means of developing and enhancing language skills among L2 learners. However, listening skill teaching has been a neglected area. There has been a general belief that being able to speak, read and write in a given L2, is a parameter to be able to claim that L2 learners are proficient in communication in that language. In view of this assumption, many L2 teachers have ignored the true importance that listening has as a source or oral input from which L2 speakers can acquire the target language.
Changing Attitudes, Changing Behaviors. Conceptual Change as a Model for Teaching Freedom of Religion or Belief
Author: Rea-Ramirez, Mary Anne
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Attitude Change,Behavior Change,Concept Formation,Beliefs,Religion,Intellectual Freedom,Social Sciences,Civil Rights,Empathy,Ideology,Instruction,Theories,Models,Prior Learning,Misconceptions,Faculty Development,Training,Foreign Countries,Change Strategies,Cultural Pluralism

Purpose: The purpose is to demonstrate that conceptual change theory and strategies can be applied to areas of the social science, such as human rights education on FORB. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical scope of this paper is conceptual change theory and is intended to introduce the theory and practice of conceptual change in teaching about FORB in social sciences and how it was used in training teachers. Findings: Conceptual change theory and strategies were found to be effective in teaching about FORB. Practical implications: This study introduces the use of conceptual change theory and strategies in teaching about human rights.
Effects of Computer Animation Instructional Package on Students&apos; Achievement in Practical Biology
Author: Hamzat, Abdulrasaq
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Animation,Instructional Materials,Secondary School Students,Biology,Foreign Countries,Pretests Posttests,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Quasiexperimental Design,Science Tests,Achievement Tests,Correlation,Hypothesis Testing,Computer Assisted Instruction,Student Improvement,Science Achievement,Botany

This study examined the effects of computer animation instructional package on secondary school students' achievement in practical biology in Ilorin, Nigeria. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test, control group, non-randomised and nonequivalent quasi-experimental design, with a 2x2x3 factorial design. Two intact classes from two secondary schools were purposively sampled. The instruments used were Biology Practical Achievement Test (BPAT) for data gathering and Computer Animation Instructional Package (CAIP) as the treatment instrument. The reliability coefficient of BPAT was determined using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation and was found to be 0.91. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated in the study. The hypotheses were tested with t-test statistics at a significance level of 0.05. The study concluded that CAIP significantly improved students' achievement in practical biology. The researchers recommend that biology teachers should employ computer animation instructional packages to teach the practical aspects of photosynthesis among other biology topics.
Scale of Professional Ethics for Individuals Working in the Field of Special Education: Validity and Reliability Study
Author: Akcamete, Gonul
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Ethics,Special Education,Special Education Teachers,Professional Associations,Standard Setting,Specialists,Behavior Rating Scales,Test Reliability,Test Validity,Likert Scales,Construct Validity,Data Collection,Test Construction,Factor Analysis,Administrative Principles,Work Ethic,Foreign Countries,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,Content Analysis

Professional ethics includes the principles set forth by professional associations and accepted as correct by discussions over time, and which has become the sine qua non of a profession today. Professional ethics are established to increase the quality of professional practices and ensure correct and honest conduct. Not having professional ethical principles for the special education field negatively affects the quality of services. The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of principles in professional ethics for specialists and educators working in special education and to conduct its validity and reliability studies. For construct validity studies following Kaiser-Meyer Olkin test, factor analysis was performed. The analysis showed that ethical principles were gathered in two dimensions as 'importance and compliance of colleagues' and had a two-way Likert type. The findings showed that the scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be used in special education.