Barbara Blummer, Jeffrey M. Kenton

Improving Student Information Search

A Metacognitive Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies. Improving Student Information Search traces the impact of a tutorial on education graduate students' problem-solving in online research databases. The tutorial centres on idea tactics developed by Bates that represent metacognitive strategies designed to improve information search outcomes. The first half of the book explores the role of metacognition in problem-solving, especially for education graduate students. It also discusses the use of metacognitive scaffolds for improving students' problem-solving. The second half of the book presents the mixed method study, including the development of the tutorial, its impact on seven graduate students' search behaviour and outcomes, and suggestions for adapting the tutorial for other users.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chandos / Chandos Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2013-0-18367-5
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781843347811
• ISBN-10: 1843347814
• Artikelnr.: 40910075

Inhaltsangabe

• List of figures and tables
  • Figures
  • Tables
• Acknowledgments
• About the authors
• Summary of the study
• 1: Overview of the study
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Background - metacognition in information search
  • Need
  • Problem solving, literacy in research databases, and tutorial-based library instruction
  • Research questions
• 2: Information research and the search process
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Early research
  • Dervin's methodology, theory, and framework
  • Information-seeking behavior
  • Information retrieval researchers
  • Summary of information search research
• 3: Research on metacognition
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Early research
  • Metacognitive instruction
  • Summary of research on metacognition
• 4: Problem solving and metacognition
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Problem solving and memory
  • Problem solving and metacognition
  • Metacognitive experiences and problem solving
  • Metacognitive knowledge and problem solving
  • Metacognition and problem solving on the web
  • Metacognitive training and problem solving
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of problem solving and metacognition
• 5: Information problem solving and metacognitive skills
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Evolution of information problem solving and metacognition research
  • Metacognition in information problem-solving research from the EU
  • Improving students' information problem solving
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of information problem solving and metacognition
• 6: Education graduate students' information-seeking skills
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Early research
  • Education graduate students' research skills in the millennium
  • Importance of instruction to provide "new skills, new knowledge
  • Library training for education graduate students
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of education graduate students' information behavior
• 7: Education students' information seeking to support problem solving
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Education students' metacognition in information problem solving in hypermedia systems
  • Metacognition in group problem solving
  • Education students' lack of computing skills
  • Metacognition compensates for problem-solving deficiencies
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of research on education students' information seeking to support problem solving
• 8: Metacognitive skills and online search behavior
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Difficulties with online search
  • Need for skills instruction
  • Importance of mental models in searching information systems
  • Metacognitive techniques in online search
  • Role of metacognition
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of research on metacognitive skills in online search behavior
• 9: Promoting metacognition
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Metacognition instruction
  • Metacognitive scaffolds
  • Metacognitive scaffolds to support information problem solving
  • Prompts
  • Importance of matching prompt type to individuals' learning needs
  • Idea tactics tutorial
  • Summary of research on promoting metacognition
• 10: The metacognitive scaffold: the idea tactics tutorial
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Research that informed the scaffold's creation
  • Bates' idea tactics
  • The tutorial's tactics
  • Database search techniques
  • Creating the tutorial
  • Pilot studies
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