Emily Mazure, MSI, AHIP Margaret Henderson, MLIS Shannon D. Jones, MLS, AHIP

Enhancing the One-Shot Session: Using Pre-Class Online Tutorials to Build a Basic Information Literacy Foundation

LOEX Annual Conference April 30th, 2010

Emily Mazure, MSI, AHIPMargaret Henderson, MLIS

Shannon D. Jones, MLS, AHIP

Project Overview

1-Shot Classes

Quizzes

Short Tutorials Workshops

Coming Up Next

• Tutorials in Libraries• VCU & The Tompkins-McCaw Library for the

Health Sciences• Why?• How• What• Results• Future

Virginia Commonwealth University

Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences

Instruction @ TML

Boolean OperatorsControlled Terms

Database Thesauri

Learning styles

Standardize

Why Tutorials

The Tutorials

Boolean Operators

Controlled Terms & Database Thesauri

Objectives

• Basics• Concepts• Application• Generalizable

Process

Storyboard• PowerP

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Audio• Audacity

Screencapture• PowerPoint

slides• Camtasia

Edit• Camtasia

Produce videos• Quiz links

Boolean Operators

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Tutorial Sneak Peek

Boolean Operator Tutorial

Controlled Terms & Thesauri Tutorial

Pre-Class Pre-Class

Post-Class Post-Class

Quizzes

Please select the date and time of the library class session.

Quizzes



Pre-Class Pre-Class


Did you watch the tutorial on _____ before attending class?

Quizzes




7 Questions

Pre = Post

Quizzes


Pre-Class

Post-Class

5 Questions

Pre ≠ Post

Db screenshots

Quizzes


Pre-Class

Post-Class

Evaluation

• 9 questions– 3 open-ended

• Identify tutorials, NOT class• Rate

– Content– Aesthetics– Confidence

Use with Classes

Instructor requests class• Content

Librarian request participation• Email

Send tutorials & quizzes to students• Email • Add to

Blackboard

Review quizzes• Alter class

content

In-class instruction session• Post-class quiz• Evaluation

Practice Makes Perfect…Right?

What content, covered in the tutorials or class, did you already know?

What content, covered in the tutorials or class, was new to you?

The bump in the road

Now What?

Use with Classes Workshops

Library plans workshop• Advance

d Pubmed

Promote• Email

faculty & students

• Flyers• Food!

Send tutorials & quizzes to students• Email

Review quizzes• Alter class

content

In-class instruction session• Post-class quiz• Evaluation

WORKSHOP 1

WORKSHOP 1

WORKSHOP 2

Question…

How many, out of 30, watched the tutorials and completed the quizzes?

Write down your answer.

Boolean Operators Quiz• 19 started• 15 completed

Controlled Terms & Thesauri Quiz• 15 started• 14 completed

WORKSHOP 1

Boolean operators Quiz• 8 started• 6 completed

Controlled Terms & Thesauri Quiz• 6 started• 6 completed

WORKSHOP 2

Answer…

Total completed quizzes:

Boolean Operators: 21 (70%)Controlled Terms & Thesauri: 20 (67%)

How close was your guess?

Where were students confused?

• AND & NOT – Refines search• OR – Broadens search• Explode feature • Why use controlled terms

Question…

How many, out of 31 registrants, attended the classes?

Write down your answer.

WORKSHOP 1

WORKSHOP 2

Answer…

Workshop 1: 13 (68%)Workshop 2: 7 (58%)

Total: 20 (65%)

How close was your guess?How does this compare to workshops you offer

at your institution?

11 QUIZZES

WORKSHOP 1

WORKSHOP 2

5QUIZZES

16 POST-CLASS QUIZZES COMPLETEDFOR EACH TUTORIAL

WORKSHOP TOTAL

Analysis

• Pre-Class vs. Post-Class Quizzes • Completed the quizzes• Watched the tutorials

• Post-Class Quizzes• Watched the tutorials

Color Code

• Purple = correct answers

• Orange = incorrect answers

• Blue-Green = semi-correct answers

Pre-Class Post- ClassVS.

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Which of the following are Boolean operators? (select all that apply)

Post

Correct100%

Post

Correct90%

Incorrect10%

Pre

CorrectIncorrectSemi-Correct

Boolean operators AND and NOT ____________ the results, while using OR

___________ the results.

Narrow, broaden

95%

Broaden, narrow

5%

Pre

Narrow, broaden

85%

Broaden, narrow

15%

Post


The Boolean Operator OR is best used to find terms that are __________ (select all that apply).

Correct24%

Semi-Correct (synonyms)

57%

Incorrect19%

Pre

Correct8%

Incorrect23%

Semi-Correct

(syn-onyms)

69%

Post


Which search is most likely to exclude relevant results?

Lion NOT sea95%

Lion AND sea5%

Pre

Lion NOT sea92%

Lion OR sea8%

PostCorrectIncorrectSemi-Correct

Your initial database search yields too many results. To refine your search you may add another search term. Which Boolean operator(s) would you use to reduce the number of results? (select all that apply)

Correct57%

In-cor-rect43%

Pre

Correct69%

In-cor-rect31%

Post


Your initial database search yields too few results. To broaden your search you can increase the number of results by adding synonyms

and related terms with the Boolean operator(s) _________ . (select all that apply)

Correct77%

Incorrect23%

Post

Correct81%

Incorrect19%

Pre


Rank how many articles you would expect the following searches to find, from largest to smallest number of articles.

Correct57%

In-cor-rect43%

Pre

Correct85%

In-cor-rect15%

Post


CONTROLLED TERMS & THESAURI

Which of the highlighted links will allow you to look up controlled terms?

A15%

B69%

C15%

Post

B5%

C5%

D 90%

PreCorrectIncorrectSemi-Correct

If you ‘Explode’ your search, you will find articles assigned which of the following controlled terms?

(select all that apply)

Correct29%

In-cor-rect71%

Pre

Correct23%

In-cor-rect77%

Post


Which of the following terms are synonyms for controlled terms?

Con-trolled

vocabu-lary8%

All of the above92%

Post

Subject terms

5%

Con-trolled

vocabu-lary5%

Headings5%

All of the above85%

Pre


The explode feature will create a search for the selected term and all of the ________

terms listed in the tree.

Broader8%

Related8%

Narrower77%

MeSH8%

Post

Broader5%

Related19%

Narrower 62%

MeSH14%


Why use controlled terms when you search databases. (select all that apply)

Correct36%

Semi-Cor-rect14%

In-cor-rect50%

Post

Correct33%

Semi-Correct

14%

In-cor-rect52%


Pre-Class Post- ClassVS.

TIE

Tutorial No TutorialVS.

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Watched Tutorial Did Not Watch Tutorial

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CONTROLLED TERMS & THESAURI

Watched Tutorial Did Not Watch Tutorial

41

3

5

1

2

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52

4


Tutorial No TutorialVS.WINNER

EVALUATION

Which tutorial(s) did you watch? (select all that apply)

Boolean operators for database searching

Database controlled terms and thesauri

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Approximately how many minutes did it take you to watch the tutorials and complete the quizzes before class?

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Please rate the following:

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Tutorial content

Poor Fair Adequate Very Good

Excellent N/A012345678

Tutorial aesthetics

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In-class contentPlease rate the following:

Poor Fair Adequate Very Good

Excellent N/A0123456789

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In-class delivery

Please rate your confidence in

completing the following tasks, after watching

the tutorial, but before coming to

class.

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8Using Controlled terms to search in a database

Very confident

Fairly confident

Not very confident

Not at all confident

Don’t know

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Identifying Controlled terms in a database

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Using Boolean operators to search in a database

Very confident

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Identifying Controlled terms in a database

Please rate your

confidence in

completing the following tasks, after attending class with a

librarian.

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Using Controlled terms to search in a database02468

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Using Boolean operators to search in a database

How would you prefer to learn about basic concepts (like Boolean operators and controlled terms)?

By watching tutorials prior to class.

Through librarian lectures during class.

Through your own trial-and-error.

Other 0

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What content, covered in the tutorials or class, was new to you?

What content, covered in the tutorials or class, did you

already know?

Do you have any suggestions for improving the tutorials or the class?

I thought using the tutorial before class was helpful because it meant some of the lecture could be cut out and we

could do some searches hands-on and have questions answered. Nice pairing.

…I learned it in the tutorial, but firmed up the

knowledge in class.

This class was wonderful and very practical.

To sum it up…

• It worked!

• No Tutorials = Poor understanding

• Post-class ≥ Pre-class

• Save class time and focus instruction – Students appreciated this!

To sum it up…

• Reminders!

• Faculty buy-in is crucial

• Time

Future

• Work with classes!• Tweak questions• Additional tutorials?

Links• VCU

– Controlled Terms & Thesauri Tutorial: http://bit.ly/cttutorial– Boolean Operators Tutorial: http://bit.ly/botutorial

• Additional URL’s: http://bit.ly/loexhandout• Other Tutorials• http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/intro/internet.htm• http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/• http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/• http://collaborations.denison.edu/ohio5/infolit/• http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/research/media/#Howto• http://libraries.ou.edu/help/tutorials/• http://www.library.dal.ca/How/LibCasts/• http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/

http://bit.ly/cttutorial

http://bit.ly/botutorial

http://bit.ly/loexhandout

http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/intro/internet.htm

http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/

http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/

http://collaborations.denison.edu/ohio5/infolit/

http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/research/media/#Howto

http://libraries.ou.edu/help/tutorials/

http://www.library.dal.ca/How/LibCasts/

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/

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Questions?Suggestions?

Emily MazureVirginia Commonwealth [email protected]

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Emily Mazure, MSI, AHIP Margaret Henderson, MLIS Shannon D. Jones, MLS, AHIP