Guiding Independence: Developing a Research Tool to Support Student Decision Making in Selecting Online Information Sources

Autor/inn/en	Baildon, Rindi; Baildon, Mark
Titel	Guiding Independence: Developing a Research Tool to Support Student Decision Making in Selecting Online Information Sources
Quelle	In: Reading Teacher, 61 (2008) 8, S.636-647 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0561
DOI	10.1598/RT.61.8.5
Schlagwörter	Research Tools; Readability; Information Sources; Credibility; Foreign Countries; Resource Materials; Grade 4; Elementary Education; Decision Making Skills; Internet; Elementary School Teachers; Educational Strategies; Web Sites; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungsmittel; Lesbarkeit; Information source; Informationsquelle; Glaubwürdigkeit; Ausland; Quellenmaterial; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Elementarunterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrstrategie; Web-Design; Singapur
Abstract	The development and use of a research tool to guide fourth-grade students' use of information sources during a research project is described in this article. Over a period of five weeks, 21 fourth-grade students in an international school in Singapore participated in a study investigating the extent to which the use of a "research resource guide" improved their independence in the research process. Findings indicate that students became more independent as a result of their use of the research guide. Students demonstrated greater consideration of a source's readability, trustworthiness, and usefulness when deciding whether to use it. The authors describe approaches to support students in making determinations about the readability, trustworthiness, and usefulness of sources of information. (Contains 8 figures.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10