What's best for students? Comparing the effectiveness of a traditional print pathfinder and a web-based research tool

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Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 671-686

  Magi, Trina J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 24344464757     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2003.0090     Document Type: Article

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1. In library instruction evaluations completed by students in University of Vermont business classes during the 2001-2002 academic year, 96 percent of students agreed or strongly agreed that the printed pathfinders were helpful to them.
2. Pew Research Center, "The Internet Goes to College: How Students Are Living in the Future with Today's Technology" (September 15, 2002). Available: 〈http:// www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_College_Report. pdf〉 [September 16, 2003].
3. "The Internet Goes to College: How Students Are Living in the Future with Today's Technology" (2002). 〈http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/ pdfs/PIP_College_Report.pdf〉 Ibid.
4. Council on Library and Information Resources, "Dimensions and Use of the Scholarly Information Environment: Introduction" (2002). Available 〈http://www.clir.org/pubs/ reports/pub110/introduction.html〉 [September 16, 2003].
5. Stephanie Michel, "What Do They Really Think? Assessing Student and Faculty Perspectives of a Web-based Tutorial to Library Research," College and Research Libraries 62, 4 (July 2001): 319.
6. Ransford C. Pyle and Charles D. Dziuban, "Technology: Servant or Master of the Online Teacher?" Library Trends 50, 1 (Summer 2001): 130.
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8. Michel, 321.
9. Ibid., 329.
10. Carolyn Gutierrez and Jianrong Wang, "A Comparison of an Electronic vs. Print Workbook for Information Literacy Instruction," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, 3 (May 2001): 210-211.
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14. Lori Oling and Michelle Mach, College and Research Libraries Ibid., 22.
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19. Diana D. Shonrock, ed., Evaluating Library Instruction, Sample Questions, Forms, and Strategies for Practical Use (Chicago: American Library Association, 1996).
20. Philip M. Davis, "Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 1 (January 2003): 47.