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Children, Technology, and Instruction: A Case Study of Elementary
School Children Using an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
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Children, Technology, and Instruction: A Case Study of Elementary
School Children Using an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
Paul
Solomon
- Paul Solomon, "Children's Information Retrieval Behavior: A Case Analysis of an OPAC," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (Jun. 1993): 245-64; Paul Solomon, "On the Dynamics of Information Systems Use: From Novice to ?" Proceedings of the 55th ASIS Annual Meeting 29 (Oct. 1992):162-70.
- Bruce R. Joyce and Elizabeth A. Joyce, "The Creation of Information Systems for Children," Interchange 1 (1970):1-12.
- Carol C. Kuhlthau, "Meeting the Information Needs of Children and Young Adults: Basing Library Media Programs on Developmental States," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 1 (Fall 1988): 51-57.
- Leslie Edmonda, Paula Moore, and Kathleen M. Balcom, "The Effectiveness of an Online Catalog," School Library Journal 36(Oct. 1990): 29-32.
- A prototype science library catalog for children, which has been under development by Christine Borgman and associates at UCLA, employs a mouse for browsing access. It does not require skills beyond reading and recognition. See, for instance, Virginia A. Walter and Christine L. Borgman, "The Science Library Catalog: A Prototype Information Retrieval System for Children," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 4 (Winter 1991): 159-66. Kid's Catalog, a product of CARL, Inc., is available commercially as a front end for some OPACs. It allows browsing, direct entry of queries, and interface tailoring. For further information, see Paula Busey and Tom Doerr, "Kid's Catalog: An Information Retrieval System for Children," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 7 (Winter 1993): 77-84.
- Delia Neuman, "Naturalistic Inquiry and Computer-Based Instruction: Rationale, Procedures, and Potential," Educational Technology Research and Development 37 (Fall 1989): 39-51; Delia Neuman, "Learning Disabled Students' Interactions with Commercial Courseward," Educational Technology Research and Development 39 (Spring 1991): 31-49.
- Muriel Saville-Troike, The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction (New York: Blackwell, 1989).
- Sharan B. Merriam, Case Study Research in Education: A Qualitative Approach (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988).
- Egon G. Guba, "Criteria for Assessing the Trustworthiness of Naturalistic Inquiries," Educational Communication and Technology Journal 29 (Spring 1981): 75-91.
- Hugh Mehan, Learning Lessons (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1979).
- Tenata Tesch, Qualitative Research: Analysis Types and Software Tools (Philadelphia, Pa.: Falmer Pr., 1990).
- Guba, "Criteria for Assessing."
- In this school system, both serously disabled and gifted students are channeled to special centers. Therefore, the study school's student population did not include children at either extreme.
- Carol C. Kuhlthau, Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1993).
- Edmonds, Moore, and Balcom, "The Effectiveness of an Online Catalog."
- Shu-Hsien Chen, "A Study of High School Students' Online Catalog Searching Behavior," SLMQ (Fall 1993): 33-40.
- Delia Neuman, "Designing Databases as Tools for Higher-Level Learning: Insights from Instructional Systems Design," Educational Technology Research and Development 41 (Winter 1993): 25-46.
- Busey and Doerr, "Kid's Catalog."
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