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Direct linkFraser, Christie; Herman, Jayme; Elgie, Susan; Childs, Ruth A. – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Often, a principal's responsibilities include making decisions about the appropriateness of educational programmes to adopt in their school. Recommendations about programmes can be conflicting; so, a principal may need to search for evidence to inform their decision. Purpose: The purpose of this small-scale study was to clarify how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Schools, Information Sources
Zhang, Yuening – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2017
Although scholarship has addressed issues around serving international students in U.S. and Canadian libraries, reports on how Chinese graduate students use information in Chinese universities, especially for a particular discipline, are rare. In this study, the author interviewed 15 graduate students and researchers in a top-ranked chemistry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Researchers, Chemistry
Lee, Yeung – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper reports an investigation of assessing students' information literacy (IL) in a naturalistic classroom environment by using a set of rubrics. A total of 72 lessons from 15 classrooms in Hong Kong were examined. Results indicate that the rubric is generally valid and usable in assessing students' IL skills but three more attributes which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Information Literacy, Classroom Environment
Download full textTell, Bjorn V.; And Others – 1972
Since February 1971 the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, has been running the ERIC data base mainly for SDI purposes. The implementation of the data base into the generalized search system, ABACUS, is described. One hundred and fifty-eight users received SDI service at present, 99 from governmental and educational institutions, 23 from…
Descriptors: Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedShenton, Andrew K.; Dixon, Pat – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Describes a study conducted in England that compared elementary and secondary school students' use of CD-ROMs and the Internet to meet their information needs. Reviews related research, considers information needs in conjunction with information seeking behavior, and reports results that discuss home access, student attitudes, and search…
Descriptors: CD ROMs, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Richey, Debora J. – 1993
The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) on compact disc provides access to nearly 300,000 printed materials from Britain and the British colonies from 1701 to 1800. The file contains a wide variety of materials (laws, almanacs, posters, catalogs, directories, verses, monographs, advertisements, and flyers) in all languages, and covers…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
Donnan, Peter, Ed. – 1996
Five papers examine the adoption of resource based learning at Charles Sturt University (Australia). "Literature Searches and Distance Education: Whose Problem?" (Stephen Parnell) discusses the question of who should accept responsibility for the intellectual content of literature searches; the library is at the center of a resource…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
