Search Skills Research Articles

Exploring the interplay between sport modality and cognitive function in open- and closed-skill athletes

The degree to which each sport modality relies on cognitive visual skills is hitherto under-researched. This study sought to further understanding of the relationship between sport modality and visual search ability, visual working memory, and reasoning. Ninety-five participants took part in the present study. In order to assess visual search ability, we employed the Visual Search Task. Visual working memory was assessed through the Corsi Block Tapping – Backwards Task. Reasoning abilities were assessed through the Cognitive Reflection Task. Results indicate that visual search skills appear to benefit to a higher extent from open-skill sports when compared to closed-skill sports. It is important to emphasize, however, that this result was associated with a small effect size. Moreover, the present findings indicate that closed-skill athletes do not differ in terms of visual search abilities, working memory, and reasoning abilities when compared to control individuals.

How to answer clinical questions at the point of care: Clinical librarian intervention for family medicine residents.

Family medicine residency programs need to incorporate ongoing training in the CanMEDS-Family Medicine scholar role. To teach and reinforce evidence-based, point-of-care search skills in family medicine residents through involvement of a clinical librarian at morning report. A clinical librarian session is run weekly during morning report while residents rotate through a family medicine-run inpatient unit. An evidence-based model emphasizing preappraised sources for point-of-care searching of clinical questions is introduced, and residents have an opportunity to answer their own clinical questions. Feedback suggests most residents find the sessions affect their practices positively and increase their use of evidence-based, preappraised point-of-care resources. Incorporating a clinical librarian in evidence-based medicine sessions enhances family medicine residents' competencies in the CanMEDS-Family Medicine scholar role.

Organization of Developmental Training in Preschool Educational Institutions

Self-realization, self-presentation is one of the most important qualities of the modern man. It is especially important to support this work in the educational process, bringing it to the centre of educators and children’s activities. One important way of doing this is to give tasks that ensure independence of thought. It is possible to ensure and monitor the development of children through classwork. The children demonstrate skills such as understanding, application, analysis, etc. at different stages of cognition. An important condition in the lesson content is the development of a humane position in children, situation selection for children, creative search, problem-solving, communication and cooperation skills in training, a reflection of self-regulation, self-awareness, reflection, selection of methods that allow children to develop cognitive activity. Methods of raising cognitive activity include comparison, analysis, generalization, question method, solution of logical tasks, research, etc.

Description and Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Residency Curriculum Using the Evidence-Based Medicine Environment Survey.

Teaching medical trainees evidence-based medicine (EBM) is required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Most published graduate EBM curricula focus on critical appraisal over point-of-care information mastery. Faculty at the University of Rochester Family Medicine Residency implemented a clinically integrated, cyclical EBM curriculum juxtaposing information mastery with expert-level skills such as critical appraisal. We administered the Evidence-Based Medicine Environment Survey (EBMES) to learners before and after the yearlong curriculum. Two cohorts of participating third-year residents completed the EBMES before and after an EBM curriculum. Over 2 years, 21 residents completed pre- and postevaluations. Resident perception of the EBM educational and practice environment was high at baseline and improved for 15 of 36 survey items (P<.05). Resident perception of the EBM learning environment improved after participation in a yearlong curriculum. Nearly all of the content covered in the "Science of Family Medicine" curriculum and measured by EBMES improved in a statistically significant manner. We propose that EBM curricula should combine traditional literature search and critical appraisal skills with information mastery to maximize effectiveness. Our curriculum can be modified to fit other graduate family medicine contexts.

Impact of Internet and Search Engines on Students’ Understanding of Consumer Behaviour and Choices In Tertiary Institutions of Learning In Abuja, Nigeria.

Understanding consumer behaviour and choices are crucial for marketing students in tertiary institutions of learning. Thus, the paper examined the impact of the internet and search engines on students' understanding of consumer behaviour and choices in tertiary institutions of learning in Abuja. Three research objectives and three research questions guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population comprised 1,126 students that were drawn from three tertiary institutions in the FCT. A sample of 291 students was used for the study, using Krejae, and Morgan's (1970) sample size determination table. Sixteen items self-structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. Content validity was used. Test-retest method of reliability was used to obtain the internal consistency. The reliability index was obtained through Cornbrash's alpha (0.86). 274 questionnaires were returned valid, representing a 94% success rate. Data collected were imputed into the SPSS (25) software package where descriptive statistics, in the form of graphs and tables were generated. The study discovered among others that Google is the most used search engine by students in tertiary institutions of learning in the Federal Capital Territory. Internet search engines have positive impacts on students' understanding of consumer behaviour and choices in tertiary institutions of learning in Abuja. The study recommended among others that Faculty and Departmental lecturers should educate students on how to identify junk information while surfing through the search engines, students should attend special ICT training programmes to improve their internet search skills and the cost of internet subscription should be made affordable for students and other subscribers. . Keywords: Impact, Internet, search engines, consumer behaviour and choices

The Using Communicative Language Teaching in the Online Class through Soundcloud, Zoom, and Google Classroom Applications

The schools have been implementing online learning during the pandemic. Teachers are required to be able to do online learning where these activities require the role of information and communication technology (ICT). Teachers cannot ensure that every student will understand the material taught during online learning. Therefore, the teacher must make several effective learning methods and approaches which can make students enthusiastic in learning and understanding the material presented. One approach that can be used by teachers is CLT (Communicative Language Teaching). Social interactions used in communicative language teaching can be done through dialogue, discussion, role-playing, etc. Nowadays, teachers implement many applications to support the online learning process, such as SoundCloud, Zoom, and Google Classroom. The use of those applications is to assist students in improving their skills. CLT can be used to teach many things such as vocabulary development, communication among instructors and learners, use of specialist language to a minimum, use of language (in the context of communication in general), use of Information Technology, information search skills, personal viewpoint argumentation abilities, nonverbal skills, and group networking skills.

Hone Your Job Search Skills

Special Events GaloreVolume 22, Issue 4 p. 2-2 Articles Hone Your Job Search Skills First published: 07 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/speg.31750Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume22, Issue4April 2022Pages 2-2 RelatedInformation

A qualitative study of the health information seeking behaviour of adolescent girls in Iran indicates that public libraries could help supply information required about puberty.

The present study aimed to identify the puberty related information seeking behaviour of adolescent female members of Zarrinshahr public libraries. Using a phenomenology approach, this study sought to identify the puberty related information seeking behaviours for a population of female adolescent public library patrons located in the Middle East. The data were collected via event based interviews and the samples were selected by purposeful sampling method. After converting the audio to text, the transcripts were imported into MAXQDA 10, they were coded and then, the relevant categories were extracted. The information needs of girls experiencing puberty were identified and divided into four thematic categories: health issues, psychological issues, religious issues (religious precepts), and issues related to physical activity. Girls get this information from a variety of resources such as people, the Internet, social networks, documents, and libraries. The process of information seeking is so problematic for them because they are faced with content, family, social, and financial barriers and mainly lack Internet literacy and search skills. Health information seeking constitutes the main part of adolescent girls' daily lives. Identification of adolescent girls' health information needs, the main channels of information seeking, and the barriers the girls face while information seeking can help public libraries adopt the right policies regarding the provision of health information services.

HIV/AIDS Information in Tanzania

The study examines HIV/AIDS information research conducted in Tanzania for the period of 20 years between2001 and 2020.Specifically, the study identifies studies’ settings and focus, and the HIV/AIDS information challenges reported in them. The study used metadata analysis design where 20 studies on HIV/AIDS information carried in Tanzania were reviewed. Microsoft Office Excel 2010 was used to analyse the data quantitatively. The study has found that most of the reviewed studies were conducted in urban areas. The studies were mostly set in communities and health centres and targeted people living with HIV/AIDS and health workers. Topic-wise the studies focused on access to and use of HIV/AIDS information and HIV/AIDS information dissemination. The most common challenges that affect HIV/AIDS information access based on reports made by the reviewed studies are inadequate information systems and structure, lack of information search skills and lack of information and library services. Evidently, there is a gap in HIV/AIDS information research in the country. As such, information science researchers should conduct more studies on HIV/AIDS information to increase data availability. Information professionals should come up with a research agenda that will direct researchers’ attention to HIV/AIDS matters that will enable policy makers to have enough accurate and up-to-date baseline data to aid HIV/AIDS information management.

Transversal Competences and Employability: The Impacts of Distance Learning University According to Graduates’ Follow-Up

Since higher education qualifications and digital transition are considered key factors for economic development and individual opportunities, distance learning has been presented as a solution to improve the labor force’s skills and employability. However, such links were seldom studied systematically in specific contexts, and doubts exist regarding online programs. Based on the results of three successive follow-up surveys to the graduates of the Portuguese distance learning public university (Universidade Aberta), from 2011 to 2018 (n = 1358), our article examines the graduates’ perception of acquired transversal competences, in relation to employability and social mobility gains. The statistical analysis points out a positive perception of transversal competences development, especially analytical capacity, autonomy, and communication, although some concerns were raised regarding digital skills, teamwork, job search skills, and social capital. The impacts on employability and socioeconomic mobility are positive for most students, but variable according to analyzed competences, and tend to occur mostly through internal mobility rather than through job search skills or entrepreneurship. Although exploratory, such findings allow some final considerations regarding the effective ability of higher education distance learning to enhance economic growth and employability, through transversal competences, as well as to sketch some suggestions to improve such ability.

Documentation in specialised contexts

Abstract Existing training programmes in the field of public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) do not to focus on how best to develop students’ lexical competence and corpora-based search skills. This paper reports the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel corpus-based module intended to develop Spanish postgraduate PSIT students’ lexical competence and search strategies. Adopting a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design, we administered a pre- and post-test to both an experimental group and a control group to collect quantitative data and determine whether the corpus-based module contributes to improving participants’ lexical competence and search strategies. Semi-structured focus groups were conducted to collect qualitative data, which were thematically analysed. The findings indicate that a corpus-based methodology significantly improves PSIT students’ skills in these areas, leading to the conclusion that such an approach should be adopted more widely in PSIT pedagogy.

Participatory Design and Process Testing to Optimize Utility, Usability, and Acceptability of a Mobile Game for Promoting Evidence-Driven Public Health Decision-Making in Resource-Constrained Settings.

Innovative game-based training methods that leverage the ubiquity of cellphones and familiarity with phone-based interfaces have the potential to transform the training of public health practitioners in low-income countries such as Liberia. This article describes the design, development, and testing of a prototype of the Figure It Out mobile game. The prototype game uses a disease outbreak scenario to promote evidence-based decision-making in determining the causative agent and prescribing intervention measures to minimize epidemiological and logistical burdens in resource-limited settings. An initial prototype of the game developed by the US team was playtested and evaluated by focus groups with 20 University of Liberia Masters of Public Health (UL MPH) students. Results demonstrate that the learning objectives—improving search skills for identifying scientific evidence and considering evidence before decision-making during a public health emergency—were considered relevant and important in a setting that has repeatedly and recently experienced severe threats to public health. However, some of the game mechanics that were thought to enhance engagement such as trial-and-error and choose-your-own-path gameplay, were perceived by the target audience as distracting or too time-consuming, particularly in the context of a realistic emergency scenario. Gameplay metrics that mimicked real-world situations around lives lost, money spent, and time constraints during public health outbreaks were identified as relatable and necessary considerations. Our findings reflect cultural differences between the game development team and end users that have emphasized the need for end users to have an integral part of the design team; this formative evaluation has critically informed next steps in the iterative development process. Our multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-national design team will be guided by Liberia-based public health students and faculty, as well as community members who represent our end user population in terms of experience and needs. These stakeholders will make key decisions regarding game objectives and mechanics, to be vetted and implemented by game design experts, epidemiologists, and software developers.

Web quest method in online teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in higher educational institutions

Introduction. The research is topical due to the need to find effective methods ofteaching Ukrainian to foreign students. The development of information technologyurged the development of communicative competencies in foreign students. So, theweb quest method is becoming increasingly popular in the study of foreign languagesin higher educational institutions around the world. This method is an effective toolthat allows a full involvement of foreign students in learning Ukrainian as a foreignlanguage. Methods: testing students for the level of proficiency in Ukrainian as aforeign language, statistical and mathematical processing of results using Pearson’sformulas. Results: The results of the study showed the high efficiency of the webquest method in the experimental group in comparison with traditional teachingmethods. According to all the criteria studied, the students of the experimental groupshowed higher results than the students of the control group, which proves theeffectiveness of this method. Namely, the indicator of lexical skills of the experimentalgroup with the excellent grade exceeds the indicator of the control group by 10.2%.The indicator of grammar skills of the experimental group with the excellent gradeexceeds the indicator if the control group by 7.7%. And the indicator of phonetic skills of the experimental group with the excellent grade exceeds the indicator of thecontrol group by 8.4%. There were 55.74% of foreign students who showed a highlevel of information search and analysis skills. Conclusion: The study notes the highefficiency of using the web quest method in the development of variouscommunicative competencies in foreign students. Therefore, the expediency of usingthe web quest method in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to foreignstudents has been established. Prospects: further research will be aimed at studyingthe effectiveness of web quests for the development of professional communicativecompetencies for other subjects.

Identifying Scholarly Search Skills Based on Resource and Document Selection Behavior among Researchers and Master’s Students in Engineering

Identifying Scholarly Search Skills Based on Resource and Document Selection Behavior among Researchers and Master’s Students in Engineering

Educational Challenges of Higher Education: Validation of the Information Competence Scale for Future Teachers (ICS-FT)

The irruption of information and communication technologies has brought about an abrupt change in the demands placed on future professionals. In this sense, in recent years, information competencies have gained importance in university education from a cross-cutting perspective, which advocates as its main purpose the training of young people in information search, evaluation, processing and communication skills, especially through a digital network. Based on this idea, the present work aims to develop the Information Competence Scale for Future Teachers (ICS-FT), in order to measure the level of self-perceived skills in this area. For this purpose, a work design is presented below concerning an empirical validation, divided into different phases: the validation of content, construct and reliability, which has taken as a pilot sample a total of 259 university students studying the degree of Primary Education. The results of the validation determined the optimal conditions of content, construct and reliability that allowed the application of this scale as a generic approach to determine the level of competence in the information skills of future teachers.

Accessibility of Library Resources and Support Services by Distance Learners

The purpose of this paper is to explore the accessibility of library resources and support services by distance learners at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The study utilized a survey approach in soliciting information from distance learners. A total of 33 learners from OUT responded to the survey. The study revealed that OUT offered several library services as well as library resources to distance learners. The resources identified as accessible to distance learners were books, journals, internet services, past examination papers, dissertations and theses, research guides, computers, and electronic resources. The study found out that there were challenges that hindered effective use of the library resources and services including high data cost, information overload, inadequate skills to evaluate information sources, password and login frustrations, lack of comprehensive online tutorials from OUT library, lack of information search skills, lack of distance librarian assigned to support remote students, lack of free, full text, lack of instructional resources and lack of university’s account to access digital library resources from home. The study, therefore, put up recommendations to increase resource and service accessibility at OUT library.

Future Preschool Teachers’ Search and Research Skills Formation During Professional Training

Based on the established essential characteristics and the structure of professional training of students, taking into account the results of the observational experiment, the levels of future preschools’ teachers search and research skills formation of preschool institutions were determined. The methods of scientific research were the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, educational documentation on pedagogical practice, questionnaires of future educators, as well as observation of research activities of students of higher education institutions. Analysis of psychological and pedagogical research, conducting a statement experiment made it possible to establish the features of the structural elements of research activities. The research experiment made it possible to check the level of formation of research skills in students – future educators of preschool education, as well as how they master the motivational-value, content-procedural, research components of professional training, acquire knowledge and research skills. The results of the inspection were carried out in accordance with the developed criteria, indicators and levels of research skills of future educators of preschool educational institutions.

Information Seeking Behaviour of Postgraduate Students, Researchers and Faculty Members of Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute: A Case Study

This study investigates the information seeking behaviour of PG Students, Research’s and Faculty of the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore. A structured questionnaire was used for data gathering in the BMCRI. The questionnaire data was analyzed using frequency, bar char, and percentage for easy interpretation. The research findings show that the respondents use goggle, print textbooks, library materials and social media as major research resources. Lack of computer skills, irregular electricity supply and lack of good search skills were found as factors affecting information seeking behaviour of the respondents. The following were recommended in line with the findings of the study: Training of students on computers skills, provision of alternative power supply as well as adequate coverage of information literacy skills in the use of library currently taught in the university

Links between organized visual search and reading ability in French primary school children.

Visual search skills develop substantially during the primary school years, and in parallel with children's reading achievement. Reading requires an efficient visual search and exposure to reading from the left to the right could also influence the way we explore space. No study, however, made links between visual search strategies and reading ability. In this study, 70 primary school children performed a cancellation task (Bells test) and reading tests. Our results showed that reading was closely linked to visual search accuracy but also to visual search organization, even after controlling for age for some measures. Along with the development of reading abilities, children made fewer revisitation, moved more to the nearest unmarked targets than to the farthest ones and explored more in lines. It appears, therefore, essential to take more into account the visual search organization of children with reading impairments such as dyslexia.

Journal Club is a way forward to adopt Evidence Based Practice among dental House Officers.

ABSTRACTObjectives:To identify the improvement in knowledge, presentation skills, critical skills and self-directed learning process during Journal Club platform amidst dental house officers of 2018, 2019 and 2020 after completing one year house job training at Bahria dental College Karachi.Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted from Dec- 2018 till Dec-2020. The six items were asked about perception of change for evidence-based process of (knowledge, cognitive, affective and participant domains) after completion of house job training by each cohort. The responses were noted on three point likert scale as agree, neutral and disagree. Total 150 questionnaires were distributed in three cohorts. The SPSS version 23 was used. P-value < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.Results:Total n=145 house officers had completed the proforma with response rate of 96.65%. The mean age was 24.45 ± SD 0.63 among three groups. There were n=20(14%) males and n=125(86%) females. There was improvement found for knowledge acquisition about relevant literature search among all three groups. Regarding knowledge acquisition of bio-statistics; majority of subjects n=26 (52%) in 2020 group had reported no change and in 2019 cohort n=23(48%) were agreed. Majority n=21(44%) of house officers had reported no change when asked as JC helped in critical thinking in year 2019.Conclusion:Knowledge acquisition about relevant literature search, presentation and confidence skills were improved but no significant changes were found in knowledge of biostatistics and critical thinking skills. JC is a convincing platform to learn evidence-based process amid dental house officers.