scholarly journals Information Needs and Information Seeking Behaviours of Elementary and Middle School Social Studies and Cultural Heritage Teachers in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan-Ju Lin Chang
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Library System ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

Employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches, this study seeks to systematically analyze the information needs, seeking, and use behaviors of elementary and middle school social studies and cultural heritage teachers in Taiwan, and to relate the findings to digital library system design. In-depth interviews and questionnaire surveys were used for data collection. Data was analyzed qualitatively and statistically in order to answer a number of questions regarding: the information needs for teaching social studies courses, information seeking and collecting behaviors, difficulties encountered while searching for information for teaching, factors influencing information needs and seeking behaviors, and teacher expectations of educational websites covering related subjects. Our results suggest practical applications and implications for education policy makers and library system designers.

Practice of School Education Using Micro Robots and Verification of its Effectiveness

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daigo Misaki ◽  
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Koichi Arai
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
School Education ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Elementary And Middle School ◽  
Educational Robots

This paper is to report on the practice of school education using robots and verification of its effectiveness held on the subject of “assembly of robots with off-theshelf commodities” which is mainly intended for elementary and middle school pupils. Use of micro robots as teaching material in the classroom gave a great number of pupils more opportunities to touch robots and find fun in robots. In addition, questionnaire surveys conducted on incumbent teachers who attended the lecture at Kogakuin University have proved it very useful to analyze educational robots which meet the needs in the field of education.

scholarly journals Bioinformatics in the K-8 Classroom: Designing Innovative Activities for Teacher Implementation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Shuster ◽  
Kira Claussen ◽  
Melly Locke ◽  
Krista Glazewski
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Teacher Implementation ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Professional Development Workshop ◽  
Stem Instruction ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

At the intersection of biology and computer science is the growing field of bioinformatics—the analysis of complex datasets of biological relevance. Despite the increasing importance of bioinformatics and associated practical applications, these are not standard topics in elementary and middle school classrooms. We report on a pilot project and its evolution to support implementation of bioinformatics-based activities in elementary and middle school classrooms. Specifically, we ultimately designed a multi-day summer teacher professional development workshop, in which teachers design innovative classroom activities. By focusing on teachers, our design leverages enhanced teacher knowledge and confidence to integrate innovative instructional materials into K-8 classrooms and contributes to capacity building in STEM instruction.  

Characteristics and factors that differentiate Internet users and non-users as information seekers

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edda Tandi Lwoga ◽  
Wallace Chigona
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Information Providers

The purpose of this study was to investigate the information needs and information-seeking patterns of users and non-users of the Internet among rural women in Tanzania. The study used mixed research sequential design, wherein the initial qualitative phase informed the design of the cross-sectional questionnaire surveys. The study was conducted in three rural districts in Tanzania that have telecentres: Sengerema, Kongwa and Kilosa districts. In 2014, the study conducted focus group discussions (FGDs): six FGDs with 37 Internet users, and six with 36 non-users. In 2015, questionnaire surveys were administered to 90 users and 90 non-users of Internet from telecenters. The findings showed that there were similarities in the major information needs and information seeking patterns of both users and non-users of Internet, although some variations were noted. Demographic characteristics related to education level, income and number of information sources played a key role in discriminating between Internet users and non-users. This study provides empirical findings for telecenters, libraries and other rural information providers to develop and offer relevant user-centered information services that are gender sensitive, to facilitate equitable access to relevant information for rational decision-making.

scholarly journals The development of young people's information-seeking behaviour

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (90) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Shenton Andrew ◽  
Pat Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
High Schoolers

This article uses the results of a recent research project to explore young people's information-seeking behaviour and how it develops during childhood. Young first schoolers learn much through practical experience and conversation with adults but, in the later stages of this school phase, books, CD-ROM and the Internet assume increasing importance. In the middle school, the Internet is used more frequently and CD-ROM exploitation gradually diminishes. Books from departmental libraries and textbooks provided by teachers play key roles in satisfying the academic information needs of high schoolers. It is in this phase that use of the Internet is greatest, although many teenagers are highly critical of it. Whilst the information-seeking behaviour of high schoolers is markedly more sophisticated than that of young children, some essential similarities remain. The article closes by discussing how the overall findings of the research have implications for practice, especially within schools and public libraries.

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