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Carey, James O. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2003
Reviews the Big6 information problem-solving model. Highlights include benefits and dangers of the simplicity of the model; theories of instruction; testing of the model; the model as a process for completing research projects; and advice for school library media specialists considering use of the model. (LRW)
Descriptors: Information Skills, Learning Resources Centers, Library Skills, Media Specialists
Peer reviewedSchroeder, Eileen E.; Zarinnia, E. Anne – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Illustrates how problem-based learning can be a context for developing information problem-solving skills, from defining an information need to evaluating information to articulating ideas through argumentation. It supports critical thinking, teaching for understanding, and development of student information literacy skills. (AEF)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy, Information Skills
Download full textMoore, Penny – 1999
This paper presents and discusses two research initiatives in New Zealand elementary schools in terms of factors influencing the path of professional development and sustained attention to information literacy. The first study was a comparison of professional development processes and children's learning outcomes in four elementary schools.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
Peer reviewedMoyer, Susan L.; Small, Ruth V. – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Discusses the need to motivate students to make information literacy programs successful and demonstrates how a middle school library media specialist used Small and Arnone's Motivation Overlay for Information Skills Instruction to build a set of customized toolkits to improve student research that includes the Big6[TM] approach to library and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, Learning Resources Centers, Media Specialists
Peer reviewedYucht, Alice – Teacher Librarian, 1999
Describes "FLIP IT," a process developed to help a seventh-grade class succeed at information problem solving by analyzing and defining the research process. Explains the mnemonic, FLIP IT, as focusing on the topic, locating appropriate resources, investigating and implementing the information, and producing results while using intelligent…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Information Retrieval, Information Skills, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedMoore, Penny – Teacher Librarian, 2000
Discussion of the development of information literacy focuses on a study in New Zealand elementary schools that examined teachers' understanding of information skills; teachers' understanding of resource-based learning; the role of the library; a model of information problem solving; students' experiences; conflicting information; and reading and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
Grover, Robert; Lakin, Jacqueline McMahon; Dickerson, Jane – 1997
The Interdisciplinary Assessment Model was created out of the need for improved assessment of learning, especially the assessment of critical thinking and problem solving. Development of the model required establishing a common language for library media specialists to cover various curriculum areas, a comparison of current state standards for…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedPaul, Karin; Kuhlthau, Carol C.; Branch, Jennifer L.; Solowan, Diane Galloway; Case, Roland; Abilock, Debbie; Eisenberg, Michael B.; Koechlin, Carol; Zwaan, Sandi; Hughes, Sandra; Low, Ann; Litch, Margaret; Lowry, Cindy; Irvine, Linda; Stimson, Margaret; Schlarb, Irene; Wilson, Janet; Warriner, Emily; Parsons, Les; Luongo-Orlando, Katherine; Hamilton, Donald – School Libraries in Canada, 2003
Includes 19 articles that address issues related to library skills and Canadian school libraries. Topics include information literacy; inquiry learning; critical thinking and electronic research; collaborative inquiry; information skills and the Big 6 approach to problem solving; student use of online databases; library skills; Internet accuracy;…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Kearns, Jodi L. – Book Report, 2000
Explains how the relationship between school library collection development, curriculum development, and information problem solving can be improved by applying the Big6 Skills process to the selection of materials and teacher collaboration. Includes charts for cooperative planning that follow the Big6 Skills. (Contains 3 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Charts, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedMurray, Janet – TechTrends, 2003
Describes the use of Big6 strategies in guiding student research projects as part of a cooperative program between teachers and the school librarian. Topics include information seeking strategies; evaluating information sources; locating information using search engines; analyzing information sources; and achieving information literacy and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Information Literacy
Yoo, Soyoung – 1997
Research in the school library field has shifted from the traditional focus of document storage and organization to the actual use of information in the context of the user's problem-solving. Information skills as learning tools contribute to students' ability for thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. This paper looks at how the integrated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Larose-Kuzenko, Michelle – 1997
The professional literature and research conclude that new technologies produce either similar or superior results to conventional classroom instruction, arguably because technology has positive effects on students' attitudes toward learning and gives students more control over their learning. Teacher- librarians, as information specialists,…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Uses in Education, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Danley, Elizabeth B.; Forde, Janet Lynch; Lahmon, Jo Ann; Maddox, Beverly K. – 1999
This study surveyed 126 school librarians in 18 countries, representing 131 schools serving more than 113,260 students. The survey instrument requested respondents to describe techniques they used to facilitate information literacy, their perceptions of their functions in the development of independent learners, and the training they received that…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
