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Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning is a stage-by-stage guide for educators who are interested in setting up a teaching programme to facilitate the independent learning of Sixth Form students.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shenton, Andrew K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Facet Publishing, [2021]
Subjects:
Independent study > Great Britain.
Comprehensive high schools > Great Britain.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The need for this book
  • 1.2 The nature of independent learning
  • 1.3 The special situation of Sixth Formers
  • 1.4 The scope of the book
  • 1.5 Key concepts
  • 1.6 Chapter summary
  • 2 Essential Considerations when Establishing an Information Literacy Teaching Programme
  • 2.1 Aims of the teaching
  • 2.2 The strategies available
  • 2.3 Content inspirations
  • 2.4 The design of the task
  • 2.5 Desired outcomes
  • 2.6 Surveying the whole
  • 2.7 Defining a 'learning overview'
  • 2.8 Chapter summary
  • 3 Devising Tools for Students to Self-Assess Their Academic Skills
  • 3.1 Origins
  • 3.2 Construction
  • 3.3 The individual stages
  • 3.4 Medium
  • 3.5 Optional exercises
  • 3.6 Key benefits of the instrument
  • 3.7 Caveats
  • 3.8 Ethics
  • 3.9 Chapter summary
  • 4 Facilitating Exploration and the Generation of an Effective Research Question
  • 4.1 Initiating the research process
  • 4.2 The topic: familiar or new?
  • 4.3 Making the subject of a book the subject of research
  • 4.4 Formulating an effective research question
  • 4.5 The problems of narrative and biography
  • 4.6 Self-assessment
  • 4.7 Dyadic sharing
  • 4.8 Exploiting opportunities
  • 4.9 The educator's role
  • 4.10 Developing an initial information specification
  • 4.11 Chapter summary
  • 5 Encouraging Flexible Methodologies for Solving Information Problems
  • 5.1 The nature of methodology
  • 5.2 A 'snowballing' methodology
  • 5.2.1 Overall patterns
  • 5.2.2 Attending to source types and named journals
  • 5.2.3 Other forms of search extension
  • 5.2.4 An aspirational target
  • 5.3 A methodology to facilitate comparison
  • 5.4 A composite cross-disciplinary methodology
  • 5.5 The application of methodologies
  • 5.6 Chapter summary
  • 6 Assisting in the Preparation and Planning of a Rigorous Search
  • 6.1 The choices available
  • 6.2 Itemising via a Bradford breakdown the sources available
  • 6.2.1 Bradford's research and its application
  • 6.2.2 Relevance in the classroom
  • 6.2.3 A case study: part one
  • 6.2.4 Extending Bradford's Law to embrace books
  • 6.2.5 A case study: part two
  • 6.2.6 Overall benefits
  • 6.3 The electronic environment
  • 6.3.1 Tools
  • 6.3.2 Keyword- and menu-driven information retrieval systems
  • 6.3.3 Search techniques
  • 6.4 Dismantling information-seeking boundaries
  • 6.5 Integrated strategies
  • 6.6 Chapter summary
  • 7 Promoting the Evaluation of Information
  • 7.1 Core issues
  • 7.2 The user's essential needs
  • 7.3 Options available to the student
  • 7.4 Introducing meta-evaluation
  • 7.4.1 Linking research and practice
  • 7.4.2 The significance of context
  • 7.4.3 Interdependence of the criteria
  • 7.4.4 The proforma tool
  • 7.4.5 Freedom of method
  • 7.5 Reorientating the evaluative framework to cover data

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