Improving student information search : a metacognitive approach / Barbara Blummer and Jeffrey M. Kenton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blummer, Barbara, author.

Kenton, Jeffrey M., author.

Series:

Chandos information professional series.

Chandos Information Professional Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information resources management.

Digital libraries.

Physical Description:

XX, 268 s. ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Chandos Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Improving Student Information Search: A metacognitive approach

Copyright

Contents

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Summary of the study

1 Overview of the study

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

Early research

Dervin's methodology, theory, and framework

Information-seeking behavior

Information retrieval researchers

Summary of information search research

3 Research on metacognition

Metacognitive instruction

Summary of research on metacognition

4 Problem solving and metacognition

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

Evolution of information problem solving and metacognition research

Metacognition in information problem-solving research from the EU

Improving students' information problem solving

Summary of information problem solving and metacognition

6 Education graduate students' information-seeking skills

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

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

Summary of research on education students' information seeking to support problem solving

8 Metacognitive skills and online search behavior

Difficulties with online search

Need for skills instruction

Importance of mental models in searching information systems

Metacognitive techniques in online search

Role of metacognition

Summary of research on metacognitive skills in online search behavior

9 Promoting metacognition

Metacognition instruction

Metacognitive scaffolds

Metacognitive scaffolds to support information problem solving

Prompts

Importance of matching prompt type to individuals' learning needs

Summary of research on promoting metacognition

10 The metacognitive scaffold: the idea tactics tutorial

Research that informed the scaffold's creation

Bates' idea tactics

The tutorial's tactics

Database search techniques

Creating the tutorial

Pilot studies

The tutorial

Resembles an instructional agent

Summary of the idea tactics tutorial

11 Methodology: the think-aloud problem-solving activity and post-activity interview

Mixed methods research

Guiding theory

Think-aloud protocol

Task-based usability study

Research instrument

The participants

The activity

Follow-up interviews

Summary of the problem-solving activity and interview.

12 Methodology: the data analysis

Concurrent triangulation design

Legitimization and validity

Reliability

Transcripts of problem-solving activity using prefigured codes

Transcripts of problem-solving activity and post-search interviews using open coding schemes

Participant searches

IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)

Summary of the data analysis

13 The indexes

Bates and testing the tactics

Relevance

Relevance Index

Narrowing and broadening search strategies

Number Index

Evaluation

Evaluation Index

Strategy

Strategy Index

Summary of the impact of the Indexes on participants' problem solving

14 Overall effect of tutorial on search outcomes

Research question 1: What search techniques did participants demonstrate in their initial search?

Research question 2: What general attributes were common among participants in their use of the tutorial?

Research question 3: What search techniques did participants demonstrate in their final searches?

Research question 4: How did the tutorial affect the outcome of the problem-solving activity?

Search obstacles and participants' satisfaction level

Additional issues revealed in the post-search interview and during the think-aloud

Summary of the tutorial's impact on participants' problem solving

15 The tutorial and idea generation and mental pattern breaking

Idea generation and mental pattern breaking

Database search strategies

Overcoming obstacles

Tutorial enhances search outcomes

Summary of the idea tactics' role in idea generation and mental pattern breaking

16 The impact of the tutorial on participants' metacognitive behaviors in problem solving

Metacognitive instruction.

Participants' adoption of idea tactic's metacognitive behaviors in problem solving

Participants' increased awareness of metacognitive abilities while problem solving

Education students' use of metacognitive skills

Summary of the role of the tutorial in fostering metacognitive behaviors

17 Metacognition and information literacy

Early support

Research on metacognition and information literacy

Information literacy metacognition instruction

Summary of information literacy and metacognition

18 Utilizing the tutorial

Importance of the tutorial as a reference tool

Optimizing use of the tutorial

Adapting the tutorial

Employing the tutorial in different learning environments

Tutorial improvements

Summary of utilizing the tutorial

19 Conclusion and recommendations for future studies

Appendix A: Search ratings

Appendix B: Scatter plot diagrams and bar graphs

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781780634623

1780634625

OCLC:

893731929