Improving Student Information Search A Metacognitive Approach

✍ Scribed by Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

provides metacognitive strategies to improve students’ information search outcomes
incorporates tips to enhance database search skills in digital libraries
includes seminal studies on information behaviour

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Page xiii
Acknowledgments, Page xv
About the authors, Page xvii
Summary of the study, Pages xix-xx
1 - Overview of the study, Pages 1-9
2 - Information research and the search process, Pages 11-21
3 - Research on metacognition, Pages 23-31
4 - Problem solving and metacognition, Pages 33-43
5 - Information problem solving and metacognitive skills, Pages 45-54
6 - Education graduate students’ information-seeking skills, Pages 55-64
7 - Education students’ information seeking to support problem solving, Pages 65-74
8 - Metacognitive skills and online search behavior, Pages 75-88
9 - Promoting metacognition, Pages 89-100
10 - The metacognitive scaffold: the idea tactics tutorial, Pages 101-112
11 - Methodology: the think-aloud problem-solving activity and post-activity interview, Pages 113-123
12 - Methodology: the data analysis, Pages 125-136
13 - The indexes, Pages 137-161
14 - Overall effect of tutorial on search outcomes, Pages 163-178
15 - The tutorial and idea generation and mental pattern breaking, Pages 179-187
16 - The impact of the tutorial on participants’ metacognitive behaviors in problem solving, Pages 189-196
17 - Metacognition and information literacy, Pages 197-205
18 - Utilizing the tutorial, Pages 207-217
19 - Conclusion and recommendations for future studies, Pages 219-220
Appendix A: Search ratings, Pages 221-224
Appendix B: Scatter plot diagrams and bar graphs, Pages 225-236
References, Pages 237-264
Index, Pages 265-268

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