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Depicting the Intersection between Information-Seeking Behavior and Information Literacy in the Research Process: A Model

New Directions in Children’s and Adolescents’ Information Behavior Research

ISBN: 978-1-78350-813-6, eISBN: 978-1-78350-814-3

Publication date: 17 September 2014

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this chapter is to present a model (Beginning, Acting, Telling (BAT) model) developed for the elementary-school classroom that integrates features identified by research into information-seeking behavior and information literacy.

Methodology/approach

The chapter provides an overview of research in the areas of information-seeking behavior and information literacy and models in which they have intersected (namely, the Information Search Process (ISP) model) to provide a theoretical framework in which to situate the BAT model. Examples from previous empirical studies conducted by the author that informed the model are provided.

Findings

A preliminary iteration of the BAT model has successfully been piloted in two third-grade classrooms in Buffalo, New York. Plans are underway to introduce the model to a wider audience.

Practical implications

The BAT model with its use of image and mnemonic cues can be used to teach the research process to students, beginning in the earliest grades of elementary school.

Originality/value of chapter

This chapter is the first time the final iteration of the BAT model has been presented. It is the first model integrating features inherent in information-seeking behavior and information literacy that also makes use of imagery and mnemonic.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge the wonderful third-grade students and teachers with whom she conducted the two studies. She would also like to thank Ms. Susan Janczak (former School Library Coordinator, Department of Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo, SUNY) and Michael Cambria (Director, Buffalo School Library System), who helped refine the model to its present form.

Citation

Nesset, V. (2014), "Depicting the Intersection between Information-Seeking Behavior and Information Literacy in the Research Process: A Model", New Directions in Children’s and Adolescents’ Information Behavior Research (Library and Information Science, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-056220140000010017

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited