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Download full textKang, Ji Hei; Everhart, Nancy – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: A legislative mandate to adopt digital textbooks in Florida provides an opportunity to identify concerns school librarians have regarding digital textbook implementation. Method: The stages of concern questionnaire was used to identify stages of concern among Florida school librarians about their potential role in this…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Questionnaires, Attitude Measures
Sormunen, Eero; Tanni, Mikko; Heinström, Jannica – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction: Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method: The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Cooperative Learning, Information Seeking, Interviews
Bitso, Constance; Fourie, Ina – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: This study investigates the information needs and information-seeking patterns of secondary level geography teachers in Lesotho to guide the design and implementation of an information service for these teachers. Leckie, Pettigrew and Sylvain's model of professionals' information-seeking served as a theoretical framework but was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Information Seeking, Information Needs
Sormunen, Eero; Heinstrom, Jannica; Romu, Leena; Turunen, Risto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: Past research on source-based writing assignments has hesitated to scrutinize how students actually use information afforded by sources. This paper introduces a method for the analysis of text transformations from sources to texts composed. The method is aimed to serve scholars in building a more detailed understanding of how…
Descriptors: Validity, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
Sormunen, Eero; Lehtio, Leeni – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: We report on a pilot study of students' use of sources in authoring Wikipedia articles. The procedure is demonstrated by investigating how students processed texts from sources to compose their own texts. Method: Four groups of upper secondary school students (aged 17-18 years) participated in an eight-week geography course and seven…
Descriptors: Sentences, Biology, Information Literacy, Secondary School Students
Herring, James E. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: This study, based in a Scottish secondary school, aimed to examine the views of students who were completing work experience, on their information literacy practices, and the differences they found between the school and workplace information environments while on work experience. The views of guidance teachers were also explored.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Information Literacy, Work Experience
Eckerdal, Johanna Rivano – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: The study is part of a project in which young women's evaluation of information sources before choosing a contraceptive is studied. It focuses on young women meeting midwives for counselling about contraceptives. Conversations are information literacy practices with both parties negotiating about needed and appropriate information on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Females, Sexuality
