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Using Open-Source Data to Better Understand and Respond to American School Shootings: Introducing and Exploring the American School Shooting Study (TASSS)
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Freilich, Joshua D.; Chermak, Steven M.; Connell, Nadine M.; Klein, Brent R.; Greene-Colozzi, Emily A. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
This study uses open source information to examine school shootings in the United States for the 1990-2016 period. We innovatively created a national-level database to address the gaps in existing research and identified 652 school shootings. These shootings included 473 intentional shootings (encompassing 354 with known offenders and 119 with…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, Homicide, Information Sources
Discursive Formed Topics in Information Literacy: Literature Review and High School Students' Perspectives
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Cerný, Michal – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Information literacy is a critical topic in contemporary pedagogy and information science, it is ranked among the essential competencies for the 21st century, and in recent years, it has received increasing research interest. The problem, however, is that the research is focused mainly on primary and university (college) contexts and only rarely…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Constructivism (Learning)
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Brisco, Shonda – Library Media Connection, 2006
Teaching students the difference between good and bad information has become increasingly more difficult for librarians and other educators. While tools exist to help students to understand how to determine good and bad online information (Web site evaluation forms, techniques to link back to Web site owners, etc.), the reality is that most…
Descriptors: Databases, Internet, Web Sites, Evaluation