The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators
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| author | Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly |
| author_facet | Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly |
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| contents | The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly Information Literacy Information Seeking Teacher Behavior Information Sources Teacher Characteristics Library Skills Correlation Teacher Surveys Likert Scales Internet Computer Uses in Education Teaching Methods Statistical Analysis Research on information literacy and educators has focused on preservice educators and learning information literacy skills. Little research exists on in-service educators and their information literacy skills. Purposes of this study were to identify information sources that in-service educators used; to determine relationships between information sources used and in-service educators' professional position, age groups, experience, and information format preference; and to determine relationships between in-service educators' information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Results of this study indicated statistically significant relationships between information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Other statistically significant in relationships were indicated between information-seeking habits and the age groups and current professional positions of sample population. |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spellingShingle | The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly Information Literacy Information Seeking Teacher Behavior Information Sources Teacher Characteristics Library Skills Correlation Teacher Surveys Likert Scales Internet Computer Uses in Education Teaching Methods Statistical Analysis The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators Shipman, Todd Bannon, Susan H. Nunes-Bufford, Kimberly Information Literacy Information Seeking Teacher Behavior Information Sources Teacher Characteristics Library Skills Correlation Teacher Surveys Likert Scales Internet Computer Uses in Education Teaching Methods Statistical Analysis Research on information literacy and educators has focused on preservice educators and learning information literacy skills. Little research exists on in-service educators and their information literacy skills. Purposes of this study were to identify information sources that in-service educators used; to determine relationships between information sources used and in-service educators' professional position, age groups, experience, and information format preference; and to determine relationships between in-service educators' information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Results of this study indicated statistically significant relationships between information-seeking habits and prior library instruction. Other statistically significant in relationships were indicated between information-seeking habits and the age groups and current professional positions of sample population. |
| title | The Information-Seeking Habits of In-Service Educators |
| topic | Information Literacy Information Seeking Teacher Behavior Information Sources Teacher Characteristics Library Skills Correlation Teacher Surveys Likert Scales Internet Computer Uses in Education Teaching Methods Statistical Analysis |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1058090 |