Cognitive dissonance: a useful tool for getting and keeping control of a course integrated library i

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Cognitive dissonance a useful tool for getting
and keeping control of a course integrated
library instructional session

• Pam Howard
• Senior Assistant Librarian, SF State
• February 2, 2007
• SCIL, Pomona

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Where are we going . . .

• Introduction
• Cognitive dissonance?
• What is a Student Response System (SRS)
• Why use an SRS?
• Prologue
• Case Studies One, Two, Three
• Conclusions

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What is cognitive dissonance ?

• perception of incompatibility between two
  elements of knowledge 1
• state of thinking you know something when, in
  fact you do not
• 1. Wikipedia

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What is a Student Response System?

• Technology computer, software, transponder and
  receiver
• Remotes are infrared or radio frequency
• Sources publishers and classroom technology
  companies
• Real time responses

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Why would you want to use a SRS?

• Seven Principles for Good Practice in
  Undergraduate Education1
• Actively engage students
• Gauge level of understanding
• Prompt feedback
• 1. Chickering and Gamson , 1987 AAHE Report

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Prologue

• Paper test
• SRS test
• Comparison

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1. PubMed/Medline is a ...

• Free online database?
• A database search engine?
• A government resource?
• A group of peer reviewed journals?

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2. To look for the most up to date information on
small pox eradication you would look...

• The library catalog?
• An article database?
• The Internet?

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3. The extension on the URL that means a website
is a government web site is...

• .gov
• .org
• .com

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Questions 4-6 are omitted
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Comparison

• SRS
• Synchronous
• Interactive
• Excel means, percent, charts, etc
• Cumulative
• Prep dynamic

• Paper
• Asynchronous
• Static
• Pen and paper tally
• Cumulative
• Prep static

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Case Study One OASIS

• Online tutorial content and quizzes
• Graduation Requirement
• http//oasis.sfsu.edu/
• HEED 310 Health and Society
• Writing requirement
• Research requirement

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OASIS Do you know what it is within the context
of the library?

• Yes
• No

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OASIS Did you pass a library requirement, here
or else where?

• Yes
• No

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OASIS Have you had a library class here before?

• Yes
• No

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OASIS taught me . . .

• The Dewey decimal system SF State uses.
• That I pay for interlibrary loan items.
• Peer review and scholarly articles are different.
• The library has a reference email service.
• All of the above.

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The what and the why. . .

• Determined what they knew about the tutorial.
• Determined if they had taken the tutorial.
• Determined if they completed the requirement at
  SF State.
• Tested various components of the tutorial.

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Case Study Two Broad spectrum of students

• HH 690 Psychophysiology of Healing
• Writing requirement
• Research requirement
• Upper division undergraduates and graduates,
  and open university

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Library of Congress Classification...

• psychophysiology
• psychotherapy
• placebo
• psychoneuroimmunology
• psychopharmacology

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Subject classifications are the same from one
database to the next.

• True
• False

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To request an article, I use...

• Illiad
• LINK
• Pharos

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The what and the why. . .

• Start higher up the food chain of information
  case two gtgt case one
• Students had the opportunity to use active
  learning to find subject headings
• They learned something about the catalog

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Case Study Three graduate class

• NURS 700 The Theoretical Basis of Nursing
• Writing requirement
• Research requirement
• Compare demographics and expectations to
  published information
• Pravikoff, D., Tanner, A., Pierce, S. (2005)
  Readiness of US nurses for evidence-based
  practice many dont understand or value research
  and have had no training to help them find
  evidence on which to base their practice.
  American Journal of Nursing, 105(9),40-52.

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What year did you get your first higher education
degree?

• Before 1989
• 1990-1995
• 1996-2000
• 2001- 2005

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What is your latest work setting?

• Hospital
• Nursing home
• Public/community health
• Occupational health
• Ambulatory care

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When you need information at work, where do you
turn?

• Internet
• Colleagues
• Research
• Hospital Libraries

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When you use the internet for information, what
do you use?

• Pubmed
• Nursing web sites
• Google

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Nurses feel they have a lack of access to
computers on the floor?

• True
• False

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Why use an SRS?

• Case One Assess prior knowledge
• Case Two Gauge student knowledge
• Case Three Engage students in the material

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Class request
Library Session
Technology
Student Outcomes
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Conclusions . . .

• I can teach on the fly
• Not all sections of a class are the same
• Technology is my friend
• Relevance of library instruction is tested and
  usually affirmed
• Different student segments respond positively to
  the use of an SRS

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Questions . . .

• Some additional SRS products
• Turning Technologies
• ClassActSRS/RF
• Quizdom
• InterWrite
• - - - and many more!!