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Critical Thinking Is A Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study., Monica Berger
Critical Thinking Is A Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study., Monica Berger
Publications and Research
This article describes a library workshop for freshman hospitality management students enrolled at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, which features a focus on critical thinking. An active learning experience uses an element of surprise. Students evaluate the website of a bankrupt company where information about the company’s situation is hidden or not present. When the instructor guides the class to find unbiased information from newspapers, many students begin to think critically about sources.
More Than Evaluation: Student Nurses And Their Ability To Assess Online Health Resources And Verbalize Findings, Stephanie Wiegand
More Than Evaluation: Student Nurses And Their Ability To Assess Online Health Resources And Verbalize Findings, Stephanie Wiegand
University Libraries Faculty Publications
Purpose The Internet poses both a frontier that represents the possibility for vast exploration and an open space that leaves patients wandering through unreliable information. The purpose of this study was to determine the abilities of first-year (Junior-standing) nursing students to choose, evaluate and then explain their findings in relation to health information on the Web.
Setting/Subjects 108 first-year nursing students in Foundations I at the University of Northern Colorado.
Methodology Content analysis of written papers.
Results Evaluation comprised of three cohorts (consisting of 36 students each) of first-year nursing students in Foundations I in their assessment of 216 websites. …
Using Libguides To Support Library Instruction, Leecy Barnett, Charles Kuhn, Susan, Montgomery
Using Libguides To Support Library Instruction, Leecy Barnett, Charles Kuhn, Susan, Montgomery
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Just Drive Right In: A Pathfinder To 'Get Your Feet Wet' In The 'Pool' Of Digital Primary Sources, Rebecca, Amerson
Just Drive Right In: A Pathfinder To 'Get Your Feet Wet' In The 'Pool' Of Digital Primary Sources, Rebecca, Amerson
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Library Instruction For Freshmen: Avoiding Repetition Or The Inevitable "We've Done This Before.", Toni M. Carter
Library Instruction For Freshmen: Avoiding Repetition Or The Inevitable "We've Done This Before.", Toni M. Carter
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Clicking Your Way To Library Instruction Assessment: Using A Personal Response System At Brigham Young University, Suzanne Julian, Kimball Benson
Clicking Your Way To Library Instruction Assessment: Using A Personal Response System At Brigham Young University, Suzanne Julian, Kimball Benson
Faculty Publications
An assessment of the use of a Personal Response System (clickers) during library instruction sessions. A discussion on the use of clickers as a method of assessing student learning.
Taking The Best Of Both Worlds: Success And Challenges With The Hybrid Model Of Library Instruction, Lucretia Mcculley
Taking The Best Of Both Worlds: Success And Challenges With The Hybrid Model Of Library Instruction, Lucretia Mcculley
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The University of Richmond (UR) is an independent, privately endowed institution, with a total student body of around 5,000 students. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in the liberal arts, business, law, and leadership studies. Library instruction has been an integral part of the university libraries program since the 1970s, initiated by a five-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities College Library Program and the Council on Library Resources. During the past thirty years, the program has continued to grow and reinvent itself. Overall, the instructional services program can be described as a "hybrid library instruction model," emphasizing …