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Imposed queries in the school library media center: A descriptive study
Melissa Rasmussen Gross
(1998) pp. 1–229
Searching for information on the basis of an imposed query is an information seeking behavior that has only recently been isolated. The concept of the imposed query acknowledges the fact that people transact questions for each other and that this...
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Experiences with and Perceptions of Information: A Phenomenographic Study of First-Year College Students
Melissa Gross; Don Latham
Library Quarterly Vol. 81, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 161–186
This investigation examines experiences with and perceptions of information reported by first-year college students whose level of information literacy skill is known. Participants were identified as having either proficient or below-proficient...
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Broken Links: Undergraduates Look Back on Their Experiences with Information Literacy in K-12 Education
Don Latham; Melissa Gross
School Library Media Research Vol. 11 (2008)
In the past decade information literacy has received increasing emphasis in K-12 and postsecondary education, yet the information literacy skill levels of high school and college graduates continue to vary considerably. This report compares findings ...
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Preparing Teachers and Librarians to Collaborate to Teach 21st Century Skills: Views of LIS and Education Faculty
Don Latham; Melissa Gross; Shelbie Witte
School Library Research Vol. 16 (2013)
This article discusses the results of an exploratory research project in which library and information studies (LIS) faculty and education faculty were asked about their views on teaching pre-service school librarians and teachers 21st Century...
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Preparing Future Teachers and Librarians to Create 21st Century Skills Partnerships
Shelbie Witte; Melissa Gross; Don Latham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2040–2050
Faculty from the School of Teacher Education and the School of Library and Information Studies joined together to develop a three-tier research project seeking to create synergies between library and educational initiatives by bringing together...
Topics: Information Technology Diffusion/Integration, Information Literacy Education (Library & Media)
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Cost, Statistics, Measures, and Standards for Digital Reference Services: A Preliminary View
R David Lankes; Melissa Gross; Charles R. McClure
Library Trends Vol. 51, No. 3 (2003) pp. 401–13
Reports on work from two studies in progress related to assessing digital library reference services and developing standards that support such services. Suggests that two types of standards-utilization and technical-should be considered together in ...
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Assessing Quality in Digital Reference Services
R David Lankes; Charles R. Mcclure; Melissa Gross
Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Vol. 38 (2001) pp. 323–29
Outlines a study to develop methods to assess the quality of digital reference services, test and refine measures and quality standards to describe digital reference services, and to produce a guidebook that describes how to collect and report data...
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Inducing and Tracking Confusion with Contradictions during Complex Learning
Blair Lehman; Sidney D'Mello; Amber Strain; Caitlin Mills; Melissa Gross; Allyson Dobbins; Patricia Wallace; Keith Millis; Art Graesser
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 22, No. 1 (2013) pp. 85–105
Cognitive disequilibrium and its affiliated affective state of confusion have been found to positively correlate with learning, presumably due to the effortful cognitive activities that accompany their experience. Although confusion naturally occurs ...