Results 211 to 220 of about 617,850 (247)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Practical Pre-School, 2007
Information skills are the competencies we all need to help us to find and use information effectively. We particularly need these skills in today’s society because of the increasing volume of information available from an expanding number of sources. Some people are even calling it an information explosion.
openaire +1 more source
Information skills are the competencies we all need to help us to find and use information effectively. We particularly need these skills in today’s society because of the increasing volume of information available from an expanding number of sources. Some people are even calling it an information explosion.
openaire +1 more source
Information Skills for Distance Learning
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 1998In spring 1997, the Education Services department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) Health Sciences Library (HSL) developed six Web-based tutorials designed to teach information skills. This paper describes how the modules were created.
B, Loven +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Preschoolers' Informal Mathematical Skills
American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1982Recent research shows that young children, even before they enter school, develop a surprisingly sophisticated "informal knowledge" of mathematics. 1 This informal knowledge is composed of particular concepts and skills, some of which are described in this communication. If a child is severely deficient in such informal knowledge, he or she may be at a
A J, Baroody, H P, Ginsburg
openaire +2 more sources
Information, relative skill, and technology abandonment
Journal of Health Economics, 2022We study the role of relative task-specific skill in explaining the heterogeneity in physicians' technology abandonment decisions in response to negative information shocks. We show that after an unexpected FDA safety warning on the use of minimally invasive hysterectomies, physicians alter their procedural mix towards open procedures and away from the
Bingxiao, Wu, Guy, David
openaire +2 more sources
Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction
2020Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010. The development of information literacy skills instruction can be traced from its basis in traditional reference services to ...
Nancy Thomas +3 more
openaire +1 more source
Experience informed procedural skills training
The Clinical TeacherAbstract Background Paediatric critical care (PCC) physicians must perform several emergent procedures independently and competently—requiring transition from novice to competent over a 3‐year fellowship. However, skill acquisition is not uniform.
Daniel Loeb +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Improving information handling skills
Management in Education, 2001Discusses efforts to improve the performance of the School Library or Learning Resource Centre (LRC) of the Open University. Survey to discover how well-prepared the students were when they used the LRC; Actions taken to improve students' use of the LRC; Actions to be taken to promote better learning skills throughout the school and develop the direct ...
Isabella Coles, Christine Wise
openaire +1 more source
Skills, Informality, and Development
2010This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the inter-state variations include the industrial-informal sector wage gap, revenue expenditure, and development expenditure incurred by the government.
Dibyendu Maiti, Arup Mitra
openaire +2 more sources
A case of information skills: re‐skilling or de‐skilling?
Cambridge Journal of Education, 1985(1985). A case of information skills: re‐skilling or de‐skilling? Cambridge Journal of Education: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 81-87.
openaire +1 more source
Informed choice involves many active skills
BMJ, 2016We were intrigued by Johansson and colleagues’ notion that the process of informed choice might generate an over-medicalisation of life and health experiences. However, we had some problems with it.1 Firstly, the case scenario didn’t really illustrate a downside to informed choice, merely the danger of relying on a crude process of fitting patients to
Philip, Timms, Jacob, Bird
openaire +2 more sources