“Welcome to Wrexham”: Place, Memory, and Industrial Heritage in Northern Wales

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18409/88550-thumbnail.jpgPresented at&nbsp;Memory Studies Association (MSA) conference in Newcastle, England.</p

Information literacy as a learning outcome in marketing research

Becoming familiar with the processes of obtaining information and applying it in new ways are important to learning how to do marketing research. This article describes an innovative approach to developing information literacy through a series of student marketing research projects developed for use in a virtual learning environment. These projects incorporate the latest ideas presented in the marketing education literature; each has clear learning goals and relates student activities to aspects of experiential learning. Thus, the project designs promote information literacy and require students to close the learning loop by communicating marketing research insights in a manner suitable for business managers. The authors recommend that students work individually, rather than in teams, to maximize flexibility and the breadth of learning. Student engagement, enhanced information literacy, and student satisfaction with interactivity and learning from project assignments offer measures of academic success.</p

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https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/17999/87904-thumbnail.jpgOctober 15th: Absences Excused But Classes Not Canceled. Kent State\u27s Moratorium Day Activities</p

Reference Services in the AI Era: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Information Users and Professionals

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18437/88626-thumbnail.jpgThe presentation was made at SIG-USE (Information needs, seeking and use) 23rd Annual Research Symposium at ASIST (Association for Information Science and Technology) 2023 Annual Meeting: The Evolving Nature of the Human Side of Information Research Conference website: https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-annual-symposium/&nbsp;</p

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Missed Connections: Co-Creating Opportunities for Information Literacy Partnerships

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18430/88601-thumbnail.jpgPresentation was&nbsp;delivered at the National League for Nursing Education Summit in Washington, D.C.</p

Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy

Rational numbers (i.e., fractions, percentages, decimals, and whole-number frequencies) are notoriously difficult mathematical constructs. Yet correctly interpreting rational numbers is imperative for understanding health statistics, such as gauging the likelihood of side effects from a medication. Several pernicious biases affect health decision-making involving rational numbers. In our novel developmental framework, the natural-number bias-a tendency to misapply knowledge about natural numbers to all numbers-is the mechanism underlying other biases that shape health decision-making. Natural-number bias occurs when people automatically process natural-number magnitudes and disregard ratio magnitudes. Math-cognition researchers have identified individual differences and environmental factors underlying natural-number bias and devised ways to teach people how to avoid these biases. Although effective interventions from other areas of research can help adults evaluate numerical health information, they circumvent the core issue: people\u27s penchant to automatically process natural-number magnitudes and disregard ratio magnitudes. We describe the origins of natural-number bias and how researchers may harness the bias to improve rational-number understanding and ameliorate innumeracy in real-world contexts, including health. We recommend modifications to formal math education to help children learn the connections among natural and rational numbers. We also call on researchers to consider individual differences people bring to health decision-making contexts and how measures from math cognition might identify those who would benefit most from support when interpreting health statistics. Investigating innumeracy with an interdisciplinary lens could advance understanding of innumeracy in theoretically meaningful and practical ways.</p

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https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/17998/87903-thumbnail.jpgPresident Richard Nixon quoted in exchange with&nbsp;Washington Evening Star reporter Garret Horner.&nbsp;Press Conference on September 26, 1969.</p

Harnessing the power of open databases in a writing intensive aviation security and policy course

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18370/88444-thumbnail.jpgLightening talk at&nbsp;ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) 2023 Annual Conference https://www.asee.org/events/Conferences-and-Meetings/2023-Annual-Conference-Highlights ELD (Engineering Libraries Division)</p

Mind the Gap: Understanding Coverage Breaks of Newly Launched Engineering and Computer Science Journals in Core Databases

https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18429/88599-thumbnail.jpgJournal coverage is an important factor to consider when evaluating a database. In this study, we counted the number of articles (including early access articles) in newly-launched journals (2018-2022) from two major association publishers in engineering and computer science: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). We then compared these numbers with the number of articles from these journals in Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection, Scopus, and Google Scholar (GS). Results indicated that GS had higher percentages for coverage for all the journals that were assessed and outperformed WOS and Scopus in terms of how fast newly-launched journals were indexed. Findings from this study will help librarians evaluate each database in reference, instruction, and collection development.</p