Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 7 of 7

Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Critical Thinking Is A Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study., Monica Berger Oct 2008

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 Oct 2008

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 Oct 2008

Using Libguides To Support Library Instruction, Leecy Barnett, Charles Kuhn, Susan, Montgomery

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

See presentation description.


Just Drive Right In: A Pathfinder To 'Get Your Feet Wet' In The 'Pool' Of Digital Primary Sources, Rebecca, Amerson Oct 2008

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

See presentation description.


Library Instruction For Freshmen: Avoiding Repetition Or The Inevitable "We've Done This Before.", Toni M. Carter Oct 2008

Library Instruction For Freshmen: Avoiding Repetition Or The Inevitable "We've Done This Before.", Toni M. Carter

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

See presentation description.


Clicking Your Way To Library Instruction Assessment: Using A Personal Response System At Brigham Young University, Suzanne Julian, Kimball Benson May 2008

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 Jan 2008

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 …