On Being a Virtual World Librarian: Experiences in Offering Live Reference Services in a Virtual World     

Samantha Thompson Column Editor 《The Reference Librarian》2013,54(2):219-223

The reference collection holds an important place within the library. The proper maintenance of this collection through weeding is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of collection management. This article offers a case study describing a reference collection weeding project, including the development of a reference collection policy, a review of standing orders, the goals and outcomes of the review, and a discussion of the benefits of the project.  相似文献   

Integrating Video Documentary Into the Classroom: A Community Assessment Assignment     

Samantha G. Levinson  Keith Caldwell  Helen E. Petracchi  Sandra Wexler  Rafael Engel 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(2):160-175

Community assessment is a strategy commonly taught to social work students to identify a community’s strengths and challenges. This article describes the value of using video documentary as part of a community assessment assignment. We identify the advantages of using video documentary in the assessment process and the reporting of findings. We discuss the preproduction, production, and postproduction steps necessary to produce a video documentary and illustrate how such assignments can be incorporated into a social work course. We conclude by identifying the educational benefits accrued to students.  相似文献   

The contributions of parental management language to executive function in preschool children     

Samantha W. Bindman  Annemarie H. Hindman  Ryan P. Bowles  Frederick J. Morrison 《Early childhood research quarterly》2013

This study investigated relations between preschoolers’ emergent executive function skills and their interactions with parents, with particular focus on the verbal utterances parents use to guide children's behavior (i.e., management language). Parent–child dyads (n = 127) were videotaped during a structured play task and the frequency of two types of management language, Direction (high control) and Suggestion (low control), was observed. Children's executive function was assessed using the Head–Toes–Knees–Shoulders (HTKS) task. Latent growth modeling was used to investigate relations between management language and the development of children's executive function. Direction language (i.e., commands) was negatively associated with children's age three executive function but not significantly related to the rate of executive function development over time. Conversely, Suggestion language (i.e., questions and statements that offer children some degree of choice) was positively related to executive function at age three but negatively related to growth. The potential importance of management language as a parenting behavior that contributes to various aspects of children's self-regulation during preschool and kindergarten is discussed.  相似文献   

Educational attainment in the short and long term: was there an advantage to attending faith,private, and selective schools for pupils in the 1980s?     

Alice Sullivan  Samantha Parsons  Francis Green  Richard D. Wiggins  George Ploubidis  Timmy Huynh 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(6):806-822

ABSTRACT

This paper asks whether private, selective, and faith schools in England and Wales in the 1980s provided an academic advantage to their pupils, both in the short and longer term. Using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we examine academic outcomes in compulsory schooling and further education, and the highest qualification gained by age 42. School sector differences are substantially attenuated by controlling for prior pupil characteristics. Nevertheless, a residual effect of private, grammar, and secondary modern schooling remains, both in the short and long term, controlling for both pupil and school characteristics. In the case of faith schools, however, the apparent advantage is restricted to the short term once pupil characteristics are controlled. A unique feature of our analysis is that we control for the individual’s faith of upbringing, which is important in reducing what could otherwise be seen as a distinctive Catholic school advantage.  相似文献   

Public Understanding of Climate Change: Certainty and willingness to act     

Rosanne W. Fortner  Jae-Young Lee  Jeffrey R. Corney  Samantha Romanello  Joseph Bonnell  Brian Luthy 《Environmental Education Research》2000,6(2):127-141

During a 10-week period prior to the 1997 Kyoto conference on climate change, two parallel studies were conducted: Study 1 examined media portrayals of global warming and the certainty with which information was reported (percentage of 'hedging'); Study 2 was a telephone survey to assess public knowledge about key topics in global climate change, people's certainty about their information, trust in the media, and willingness to take action on global warming. Media reports were found to be scarce, and about half of the references to global warming were found to be hedged. More hedging was evident in the New York Times than in other print media and national television reports, and economic impacts of climate change were reported with the greatest certainty. The audience (N = 139 adults, average age 36–45, with at least a high school education) reported trusting their media sources more than 50% of the time. They were collectively fairly knowledgeable and certain about global warming information (9.1 on a scale of - 20 to + 20), and they appeared to be willing to adopt a range of responsible behaviors seen to be useful in countering global warming (average response 3.0 out of 4). The knowledge/certainty factor was described as 'attitude under uncertainty', and was significantly related to media trust (r = 0.325, p < 0.01) and willingness to act responsibly (r = 0.400, p < 0.01). Comparing Study 1 with Study 2, the research does not support a hypothesis that media hedging is related to uncertainty. Implications for environmental communicators are discussed.  相似文献   

Mom Expo: Bridging the Gap Between Local Women and Perinatal Resources     

Abby M. Steketee  Samantha M. Harden 《The Journal of perinatal education》2021,30(2):108

The purpose of this project was to describe the implementation of a perinatal health fair intended to connect local women to holistic resources. Researchers used participatory strategies to develop the health fair with local women and perinatal educators. Researchers evaluated the health fair using pragmatic measures based on the (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) framework. Forty-two attendees were reached and 23 educators hosted booths and educational sessions. Feedback indicated strong enthusiasm for future similar events. Nearly three quarters of the time spent implementing the health fair was devoted to building relationships within the community. Overall, this project provides practical and empirical information to inform the planning, implementation, and evaluation of perinatal health fairs that establish meaningful connection between local women, perinatal educators, and health researchers.  相似文献   

What Youth Care About: Exploring Topic Identification for Youth-Led Research in School     

Buckley-Marudas  Mary Frances  Soltis  Samantha 《The Urban Review》2020,52(2):331-350

The Urban Review - Youth-led participatory action&nbsp;research (YPAR) has been documented to increase youth’s social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes, foster critical thinking and...  相似文献   

Project Outcome results in action     

Samantha Lopez 《Public Library Quarterly》2018,37(2):150-165

ABSTRACT

The Public Library Association’s performance measurement initiative, Project Outcome, is a free online toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of essential library programs and services by providing simple surveys and an easy-to-use process for measuring and analyzing outcomes. Interviews of participating libraries and community stakeholders were conducted in 2017 to create five success case studies. What PLA learned is that libraries using Project Outcome surveys can leverage their outcome data into actionable results—tracking their impact across time, improving and expanding programs and services, supporting new and deepening existing partnerships, and increasing library championship.  相似文献   

Place,community and information behavior: Spatially oriented information seeking zones and information source preferences     

Amelia N. Gibson  Samantha Kaplan 《Library & information science research》2017,39(2):131-139

Even in a digitally advanced society, much of our daily lives is based in place, but information behavior research has largely ignored place as theoretically relevant to information behavior. This study explores the implications of a place-based approach to studying information practices, and examines factors that influence information seeking and sharing in place-based communities among parents of individuals with disabilities. Based on qualitative data gathered from 35 parents of individuals with disabilities, it proposes a spatial model of information source preferences based on the theory of information horizons, and discusses implications of the model for future research related to information seeking and places. It also presents substantive place-related findings about local information needs, including discussion of the local parent network as an information seeking system.  相似文献   

Responding to free response examination questions: computer versus pen and paper     

Robert MacCann  Benjamin Eastment  & Samantha Pickering 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2002,33(2):173-188

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