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Stadler, Derek; Rojas, Alexandra; Perrenod, William; Keyes, Charles – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Librarians at a community college in New York City identified that, unassisted, undergraduate students often find it difficult to categorize the various information formats they are locating and citing, such as a newspaper article, a book, a scholarly article, a blog or wiki entry, or a reference source. Due to their untrained approach defining…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Library Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stoddard, Jeremy; Tunstall, Jonathan; Walker, Leila; Wight, Emily – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
Current popular media literacy programs overemphasize the verifiability, reliability, and expertise of sources over the analysis of how marginalized groups are represented. This analysis privileges traditional news sources -- and a hierarchy of "objective" news. These same institutions have been historically responsible for producing and…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Mass Media Effects, News Reporting, Credibility
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Saribas, Deniz; Çetinkaya, Ertan – Science & Education, 2021
Along with the COVID-19 outbreak, which has been a global threat for public health, the unconfirmed information about the pandemic in circulation has become another threat. Hence, it has become important to improve public understanding of science with a focus on explaining the nature of uncertainty in science and its impacts. The goal of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions
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Duran, Meltem – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2021
The purpose of this study is to determine the perceptions of preschool children on environmental pollution. A qualitative research method was employed in the current research. The data of the study were collected by semi-structured interview and drawing techniques and the obtained data were analyzed with a descriptive analysis method. The sample…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pollution, Preschool Education, Age Differences
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Lastrapes, Renée E.; Mooney, Paul – Exceptionality, 2021
The practitioner journal article has been suggested as a tool to increase teaching professionals' use of evidence-based educational practices in the classroom. Not much is known about teacher use and opinions of practitioner journal articles. A purposeful sample of 346 preservice teacher candidates and in-service teachers was surveyed about its…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Harper, Casandra E.; Scheese, Lisa; Zhou, Enyu; Darolia, Rajeev – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
In this article, we examine the sources of information that college students turn to as they make decisions related to financial aid and student loans. Based on interview data from 25 undergraduate students from one public, four-year institution, our results reveal a great amount of variation in the number and nature of sources on which students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Information Seeking
Chelsia B. Potts – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Some college, no degree (SCND) students are adults aged 25-64 who have earned college credit but no degree (Shapiro et al., 2019). There are currently 36 million adults in the United States with some college but no degree (Lumina Foundation, n.d.; U.S. Census Bureau, 2018). Reengaging this population to complete a degree or credential will assist…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Credits, Community Colleges
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Guéraud, Sabine; Walsh, Erinn K.; Cook, Anne E.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Previous studies demonstrated that outdated information may be reactivated and disrupt subsequent processing of newly encoded information. However, previous studies focused on the impact of outdated information that had been backgrounded in memory. The present experiments examined the immediate influence of outdated information; backgrounding…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Information Sources, Memory, Correlation
Scott M. Waring Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This resource has been developed for pre-K-20 educators in order to help students use primary sources to go beyond simple acquisition of content knowledge and rote memorization. The procedures and approaches outlined in this book are designed to help students use primary sources in discipline- and inquiry-based ways to develop and enhance cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Sources, Cultural Awareness, Civics
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Cheryl Wei-Yu Chen – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Informed by ecological approaches to second language development (SLD), the current study looked into three adult English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' quests of engaging in lifelong, informal language learning in the digital age. Data from in-depth interviews revealed that popular culture presented in different media forms offered…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Informal Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Heather L. Katz – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
How can information literacy (IL) skills be improved during one semester? The proliferation of information disorders - fabricated stories, misleading content, clickbait - requires skills beyond using a fake-news checklist. Students in an introductory political science course were asked to analyze a news story every week as a course objective to…
Descriptors: College Students, United States Government (Course), Information Literacy, Assignments
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Roldós, Maria Isabel; Burt, Kate G.; Eubank, Jake – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
Coronavirus disease 2019 exacerbated health inequities in Bronx Communities. This study explored vaccine hesitancy among a random sample of faculty and students from Hebert Lehman College. Findings suggest faculty are largely vaccinated (87%), while 59% of students are unvaccinated. Significant gaps in information were found related to safety and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Immunization Programs
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Zhu, Zheng; Guo, Mengdi; Dong, Tingyue; Gong, Beibei; Zhao, Xia; Hu, Yan – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Migrants are the key population for tuberculosis (TB) transmission in China. However, it remains unknown how many migrants have received TB education and through what means. Objectives: To identify the rate and methods of TB education among migrants in China by using nationally representative data. Method: This study used secondary…
Descriptors: Diseases, Migrants, Health Education, Disease Control
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Delgado, Antonio; Justo, Enrique; Terranova, Domenico; Cascales, Juan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
What difficulties do architecture students encounter in the structural design for their final master project? How do they address these difficulties? This paper presents the topic and focuses on these two research questions by examining the students' experience, using thematic analysis with a qualitative approach. We obtained the data through…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Student Projects, Architectural Education
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Nikolina Peša Pavlovic; Mate Juric; Alica Kolaric – Education for Information, 2023
This study explored university students' information-seeking behaviours related to nutrition. The focus was on cognitive authority, specifically, the trust given to information sources. Research questions encompassed identifying university students' nutrition needs, information sources usage, and the levels of trust in those sources. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Library Science, Graduate Students
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