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Collaborative Online Inquiry: Exploring Students' Skills in Locating, Reading, and Communicating Information
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Sekeres, Diane Carver; Castek, Jill – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2016
This study examines third, fourth, and fifth grade students' reasoning that was captured as they engaged collaboratively in a teacher designed inquiry task. This task focused on choosing eco-friendly toys for a fictitious local toy store. Results indicated that students were more expressive with reasoning when they shared their ideas orally, but…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Information Literacy
Successfully Promoting 21st Century Online Research Skills: Interventions in 5th-Grade Classrooms
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Kingsley, Tara L.; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Tancock, Susan M. – Reading Horizons, 2015
This quantitative study was developed to explore the ability to impact elementary student 21st Century online research skills with a planned classroom intervention curriculum. The repeated measures quasi-experimental study randomly assigned all 5th grade classes in a Midwestern, suburban school (n = 418) to a 12-week intervention or control…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Internet, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Developing Information Literacy through Independent Learning Projects in a UK Setting: Pilot Projects for Year 9 and Year 6 Pupils
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Jones, Rebecca – International Association of School Librarianship, 2010
Two information literacy skills pilot projects are being undertaken at Malvern St James School (MSJ) with Year 6 and Year 9 pupils during 2009-10. The projects encourage the development of independent learning skills, with pupils planning, managing and executing both the research and practical elements of their project. Each pupil sets their own…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Pilot Projects, Information Literacy, Information Skills
Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions
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Stafford, Tish – Knowledge Quest, 2009
The ability to question lies at the heart of human curiosity and is a necessary component of cognition. The author stresses that forming questions is essential to human thought and communication. As such, forming questions is a foundational process that cuts across curricular areas and is embedded in content standards across the nation, including…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Counties, Media Specialists, Information Literacy
Motivating Middle Schoolers Grades 5-8
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Jansen, Barbara – Library Media Connection, 2007
What motivates middle school students? Hormones and success! There is not much that teachers can do about the hormones, but they sure can affect the success. "Teaching Information and Communication Technology Skills: The Big6 in Middle Schools," a new book from Linworth Publishing, offers classroom teachers and teacher librarians new strategies…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Technology, Technological Literacy, Information Skills
An Investigation of Taiwanese Early Adolescents' Self-Evaluations Concerning the Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Approach
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Chang, Chiung-Sui – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
The study developed a Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Scale (B61PS), including the subscales of task definition and information-seeking strategies, information access and synthesis, and evaluation. More than 1,500 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded. The study revealed that the scale showed adequate reliability in assessing the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries