A New Approach to Teaching Research Methods Courses in LIS Programs
Journal of Education for Library and Information SciencePublished 1 January 2000
Juris Dilevko
Citations20
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.41
SNIP0.92
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
Abstract
An innovative approach to teaching research methods and statistics courses to LIS students is presented. The teaching strategy consists of two parts. First, it uses current news stories found in daily newspapers to introduce and explicate both basic statistical concepts and methodological approaches. Second, it uses articles published between 1930 and 1960 in Library Quarterly as examples which students can revise, expand, and update using the concepts they have learned in the class.
Keywords
Social SciencesMathematics
British Journal of Educational PsychologySTATISTICS AND MATHEMATICS ANXIETY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS: SOME INTERESTING PARALLELS
412 Citations1991Moshe Zeidner
Data lend support to the hypothesis that aversive prior experiences with mathematics, prior poor achievement in maths, and a low sense of maths self-efficacy are meaningful antecedent correlates of statistics anxiety and thus lend some credence to the "deficit" interpretation of statistics Anxiety.
Educational Studies in MathematicsWhat is Normal Anyway? Therapy for Epistemological Anxiety
172 Citations1997Uri Wilensky
This paper presents two case studies of learners attempting to make sense of the concept of normal distribution — in particular, why physical phenomena such as height fall into normal distributions.
The Journal of Experimental EducationAffective and Cognitive Correlates of Course Performance in Introductory Statistics
81 Citations1978Lawrence B. Feinberg, Silas Halperin
Psychological ReportsMale and Female Differences in Anxiety about Statistics are Not Reflected in Performance
42 Citations1998Drake R. Bradley, Catherine R. Wygant
In two introductory statistics courses, women indicated significantly more anxiety about taking the course than men, but performed as well as the men in both courses.