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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.
Auteur
Barbara Blummer is the Reference Librarian for the Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland, USA. She received a MLS from the University of Maryland in 1995, a master's degree in Communications/Digital Library from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, and an EdD from Towson University in Instructional Technology in 2012. She has published numerous articles in the library literature and presented at various information literacy conferences.
Contenu
List of figures and tables
Tables Acknowledgments About the authors Summary of the study 1: Overview of the study
Research questions 2: Information research and the search process
Summary of information search research 3: Research on metacognition
Summary of research on metacognition 4: Problem solving and metacognition
Summary of problem solving and metacognition 5: Information problem solving and metacognitive skills
Summary of information problem solving and metacognition 6: Education graduate students' information-seeking skills
Summary of education graduate students' information behavior 7: Education students' information seeking to support problem solving
Summary of research on education students' information seeking to support problem solving 8: Metacognitive skills and online search behavior
Summary of research on metacognitive skills in online search behavior 9: Promoting metacognition
Summary of research on promoting metacognition 10: The metacognitive scaffold: the idea tactics tutorial
Summary of the idea tactics tutorial 11: Methodology: the think-aloud problem-solving activity and post-activity interview
Summary of the problem-solving activity and interview 12: Methodology: the data analysis
Summary of the data analysis 13: The indexes
Summary of the impact of the Indexes on participants' problem solving 14: Overall effect of tutorial on search outcomes
Summary of the tutorial's impact on participants' problem solving 15: The tutorial and idea generation and mental pattern breaking
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