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Davis-Strauss, Susan L.; Johnson, Ensa; Lubbe, Welma – Infants and Young Children, 2022
This study explored the information and support needs of South African parents with premature infants after the initial discharge home from the hospital setting. Asynchronous online focus groups on the Facebook platform were utilized to identify the caregiving needs expressed by 25 South African parents with premature infants and to inform a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Premature Infants, Child Rearing, Parent Education
VanScoy, Amy; Julien, Heidi; Harding, Alison – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
The practice of reference and information service (RIS) should be based on an understanding of how users seek information to fill information needs and of what they do with that information once they have found it. RIS professional education, therefore, should provide students with a strong grounding in information behavior. This study explores if…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Library Services, Library Education, Graduate Study
von Hagen, Alexa; Müller, Bettina; Sedlak, Anna; Bachmann, Gerhard; Herbert, Jana; Büttner, Gerhard – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2022
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote school psychological services have increased notably in many countries. With the aim of supporting evidence-based practices, we conducted a rapid systematic evidence review on the efficacy of remote as compared to in-person school psychological services. From a total of 3,873 references identified…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Human Services, Mental Health
Suarez-Alvarez, Javier – OECD Publishing, 2021
Digital technologies have changed how people interact with information. PISA data shows that 15-year-olds increasingly read online to fulfil information needs (e.g. online news versus newspapers). At the same time, technological changes in the digitalisation of communication continue to reshape people's habits (e.g. chats online versus emails).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Smith, Chad E.; Massey-Stokes, Marilyn; Lieberth, Ann – American Annals of the Deaf, 2012
Adolescent health and health literacy are critical health topics recognized in Healthy People 2020. Evidence indicates that adolescents who are d/Deaf have unique health-related needs, yet health communication efforts have not reached them. Despite the Internet's exponential growth and the growth of online health information-seeking behavior among…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Females
Siddall, Gillian – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
The article discusses the development of online tutorials to support the Academic Librarians' information literacy instruction during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The content and development of the activities are presented in relation to information literacy (IL) standards. At the University of Northampton, the first-year students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Peter Cruickshank; Bruce Ryan – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
This paper presents an evaluation of the information literacies used by community representatives when engaging with participatory budgeting in São Paulo City, Brazil. Using questions established from context-setting interviews with stakeholders, a focus group was held in 2019 with eight participative councillors, with "in situ"…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Budgets, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Data Quality Campaign, 2020
In 2020, state legislators have remained focused on making data available to address education challenges. More and more, policymakers are introducing bills that would address the information needs of students, educators, parents, and the public, though most new education data laws do not systematically support data use. As the COVID-19 crisis…
Descriptors: Privacy, State Legislation, Student Records, Confidentiality
Ezeh, Nnenna Gertrude; Anidi, Ojel Clara; Nwokolo, Basil Okwudili – English Language Teaching, 2021
Language impairment is a condition of impaired ability in expressing ideas, information, needs and in understanding what others say. In the teaching and learning of English as a second language, this disability poses a lot of difficulties for impaired students as well as the teacher in the pedagogic process. Pathologies and other speech/language…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Terrile, Vikki C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
While limited research on the information behaviors of community college students exists, the theories of Elfreda Chatman have not been used to develop understanding of this population. Community college students are more likely to be people of color and/or lower income than their peers in four-year colleges, making them potentially more likely to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Information Seeking, Information Skills, Users (Information)
Zane, Marci; Tucci, Valerie Karvey – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
To meet the information literacy (IL) needs of chemistry students, The College of New Jersey's (TCNJ) Library and Chemistry Departments have created a three-year seminar with a strong IL component. The program focuses on IL skills necessary for success in industry and graduate or professional education, but may lack features specific to those…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, High Schools
Lo, Patrick; Allard, Bradley – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
El Parnaso is an interesting cultural center in the small city of Young, which is located a bit north of Trinidad, Uruguay. This center is a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the information needs of its population, and it contains a children's library and a music library. El Parnaso hosts a wide variety of activities for children and…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Art Education, Cultural Education, Librarians
Elmwood, Victoria – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
A new approach to teaching web source evaluation is necessary for an internet that is increasingly littered with sources of questionable merit and motivation. Initially pioneered by K-12 educational specialists, the journalistic model avoids the cognitive duality of the checklist and a reliance on opaque terms and concepts. Instead, it recommends…
Descriptors: Journalism, Questioning Techniques, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluation Criteria
Mierzecka, Anna; Kisilowska, Malgorzata; Suminas, Andrius – College & Research Libraries, 2017
The article reports the results of a survey conducted among the Polish and Lithuanian academics concerning their information needs and expectations regarding academic library websites. The survey was realized using the technique of Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) on a group of scholars representing sciences and humanities or social…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Education, Expectation, Online Systems
Malik, Amara; Ali, Shahbaz; Batool, Syeda Hina; Ameen, Kanwal – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
The present study aims to determine the impact of perceived information literacy (IL) skills on the research productivity of mathematics faculty members in Pakistan. The study explores their opinion of their ability to identify information needs and information sources. It also examines their perceived capability of constructing effective and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty