Search Results - Michael Fosmire
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But What Are Students REALLY Thinking When They Do Research?
Published 2014-12-01Get full textThe article explores what students are really thinking when they engage in research projects or when they solve information intensive problems using think aloud verbal protocols. Topics covered include Verbal Protocol Analysis (VPA), the applications of the think-aloud protocol in the library liter...
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But Do They Care?: Pintrich on Motivation in Learning
Published 2014-04-01Get full textThe article discusses a paper which describes the role of student motivation in learning and teaching contexts. It outlines several factors that can affect motivation in the classroom as adapted from the paper, including self-efficacy, goal-orientation and personal and situational interest. It also...
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Cognitive Development and Reflective Judgment in Information Literacy
Published 2013-12-01Get full textThe article introduces the column "What I've Been Reading" to be featured in "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship" which aimed to provide a venue for encouraging librarianship research into practice.
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Science Media Education: Opportunities for Libraries?
Published 2016-12-01Get full textThe article focuses on higher education framework related to science media education which includes information on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) libraries and literacy competency standards of Association of College & Research Libraries.
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What Can Design Thinking Do for Libraries?
Published 2016-04-01Get full textMany of the readers of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship are experts on understanding and searching for engineering information resources. We can locate standards, conduct classification searches of patents, and track down those pesky conferences and technical reports that are so hard...
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Information Portals: A New Tool for Teaching Information Literacy Skills.
Published 2010-03-01Get full textLibrarians at Rice and Purdue Universities created novel assignments to teach students important information literacy skills. The assignments required the students to use a third-party web site, PageFlakes and NetVibes, respectively, to create a dynamically updated portal to information they needed...
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Free Scholarly Electronic Journals: How Good Are They?
Published 2000-08-01Get full textAmidst the furor of serials price increases, there is a steadily growing segment of the serials landscape with prices that can't be beat, that is to say, free. Many scholarly journals are freely available in electronic format (no subscription fee or membership required), but there has been lit...
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Free Scholarly Electronic Journals: An Annotated Webliography
Published 2000-11-01Get full textThis article collects, organizes and annotates free scholarly electronic journals. Disciplines covered include Biological Sciences/Agriculture, Engineering/Computers/Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Physical Sciences, STM Education, and Interdisciplinary/Complex Systems, while also listing direct...
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Riding the Active Learning Wave: Problem-Based Learning as a Catalyst for Creating Faculty-Librarian Instructional Partnerships.
Published 2002-05-01Get full textWith higher education shifting its emphasis from teaching to learning and inputs to outcomes, active learning techniques are gaining prominence. Research has shown that students learn better when they actively engage the course content, rather than passively absorb lecture material. However, many f...
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