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Aberdeen, Robert Gordon University The use of research by teachers: information literacy, access and attitudes In examining teachers' current practice, attitudes and skills in relation to the effective use of research evidence in professional practice, it is anticipated that recommendations as to how research information could be more fully integrated into the teaching profession will be developed. URL:
Not yet available Impact evaluation of museums, archives and libraries: available evidence project A critical overview of impact evaluation in the museums, archives and libraries sector. This study consisted largely of a review of the literature published during a five year retrospective period, with a particular emphasis on impact evaluations conducted within the UK. The methodologies used in, and the evidence obtained from, these evaluation studies were examined critically within the broad context of social, learning and economic impact. URL:
NONE Evaluation of the critical success factors in implementing technology based teaching materials in higher education: human factors The research concentrates specifically on the evaluation and use of educational courseware that has been designed for delivering parts of the curriculum in higher education. This research extends the trend towards contextual evaluation of IT based learning materials and will pay particular attention to the human factors affecting their implementation. The focus of the research in this respect has been on the use of VLEs to deliver teaching. The analysis of the data gathered will be used to produce a pragmatic set of guidelines for use by academic staff URL:
Not yet available The development of an holistic model of information seeking behaviour of students in higher education, encompassing use of Internet search engines The objective
of this project is the holistic exploration of the relationship
between interactive Information Retrieval on Web search engines
and human information-seeking processes. The research will provide
insight into the ways in which users define their information needs,
translate them into queries and present them to the systems they
use. The empirical real life investigation of individual students'
searching behaviour will lead to the development of an information
seeking model or pattern, that will explain the ways in which cognitive,
psychological and affective elements as well as subject knowledge
and system experience influence the information seeking process.
By observing and monitoring users in a systematic way, classes of
user behaviours related to information seeking can be employed to
make recommendations for search engines' design as well as for effective
training methods on Web information searching skills. An examination of the user experience of virtual libraries PhD research into user experience of information retrieval environments using a "cyberspace" model URL:
http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/cyberspace The relationship
between access to information and the effects of peripherality The aim of this PhD research project is to increase understanding of the relationship between access to information and the effects of peripherality (in the context of the Northern and Western Islands of Scotland). URL:
NONE 'Within their sphere? Women correspondents to Aberdeen daily newspapers, 1900-1918'. This PhD study
looks at the ways in which women letter-writers used the Letters
to the Editor columns in daily newspapers to discuss a variety of
problems and subjects in a forum outside their own home. Subjects
covered include the more traditional 'women's sphere' subjects such
as the servant problem, housekeeping and children's education and
less traditional, 'new woman' subjects such as women's suffrage,
national and local politics. URL: NONE
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