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Taylor & Francis Ltd Assessing Information Needs In The Age Of The Digital Consumer 2010 Edition by David Nicholas, Eti Herman
Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards available in today's information-centred society, this book seeks to provide a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation and evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the value of information to the consumer. Based on the insights gained from research projects involving hundreds of thousands of people, it sets out to provide a framework, firmly grounded in theory but nevertheless highly practical, for information needs analysis. The book is written both for librarians, publishers, archivists, records managers, journalists and other information professionals, to help them in their efforts to design improved systems and monitor the effectiveness of their services on an ongoing basis, and for individual information consumers, to enable them better to meet their own information needs in the expanding sphere of virtual information. Part I Talking About Science 1. Teachers Questions in the Science Classroom 2. The Art of Asking Questions in the Teaching of Science 3. Group Discussions in the Classroom 4. Explaining Science: Opening up the Differences 5. The Role of Pupils' Questions in Learning Science Part II Practical Work 6. Thinking about Practical Work 7. What is Not Fair with Investigations? 8. Data-logging Tools for Scientific Investigation 9. Risk Assessment in Science for Secondary Schools 10. Using Critical Incidents in the Science Laboratory to Teach and Learn About the Nature of Science Part III Imagined Worlds 11. Pupils' Understanding of Science: Descriptions of Experiments or a Passion to Explain 12. Learning from Models, Learning about Models 13. Making Entities 14. Numeracy in Science 15. Assessing Conceptual Understanding Part IV Communicating Science 16. Literacy and Secondary Science: Building on Primary Experience 17. Learning Science without Practical Work? 18. Pupil Learning Through Writing Science 19. There's More to Communication than just Words 20. ICT and Communication Part V Science in a Broader Context 21. Learning and Teaching about the Nature of Science 22. Teaching for Understanding in Scientific Enquiry 23. What is an Anti-racist Atom? 24. Science Education for All Part VI Putting it all Together 25. Dealing with Differentiation 26. Formative Assessment in Secondary Schools 27. Progression and Continuity