Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts
The purpose of this study is to examine the collaborative information behavior (CIB) and experiences of preservice teachers while developing curriculum in small groups. A survey was conducted with 70 students from three courses in a teacher preparation program in Taiwan, and followed up with 14 volu...
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| description | The purpose of this study is to examine the collaborative information behavior (CIB) and experiences of preservice teachers while developing curriculum in small groups. A survey was conducted with 70 students from three courses in a teacher preparation program in Taiwan, and followed up with 14 voluntary interviews among survey participants. The three courses that participants were taking share the same learning goal—promoting preservice teachers’ ability to develop curriculum through teamwork. Results show that specific CIBs, such as co-browse and co-search, only occurred prior to labor-distribution stage. In the process of curriculum development, preservice teachers who exhibited CIB more frequently typically came from teamwork/labor-distribution balanced groups, and tended to use a wider variety of online tools; compared to their low-frequency CIB counterparts, high-frequency CIB students also held more positive attitudes towards their perceived project outcome. Suggestions for facilitating cooperative learning, for future teacher education, as well as for future research, are provided based on the findings of the present study. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract) |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e68af854d994bac980d9993e3e171a32022-12-21T19:43:46ZengNational Taiwan UniversityJournal of Library and Information Studies1606-75091606-75092018-06-0116110913910.6182/jlis.201806_16(1).109Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning ContextsWan-Lin Yang0Tien-I Tsai1Center for Teacher Education, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanThe purpose of this study is to examine the collaborative information behavior (CIB) and experiences of preservice teachers while developing curriculum in small groups. A survey was conducted with 70 students from three courses in a teacher preparation program in Taiwan, and followed up with 14 voluntary interviews among survey participants. The three courses that participants were taking share the same learning goal—promoting preservice teachers’ ability to develop curriculum through teamwork. Results show that specific CIBs, such as co-browse and co-search, only occurred prior to labor-distribution stage. In the process of curriculum development, preservice teachers who exhibited CIB more frequently typically came from teamwork/labor-distribution balanced groups, and tended to use a wider variety of online tools; compared to their low-frequency CIB counterparts, high-frequency CIB students also held more positive attitudes towards their perceived project outcome. Suggestions for facilitating cooperative learning, for future teacher education, as well as for future research, are provided based on the findings of the present study. (Article content in Chinese with English extended abstract)https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j46-5.pdfinformation behaviorcollaborative information behaviorcooperative learningcurriculum developmentteacher education |
| spellingShingle | Wan-Lin Yang Tien-I Tsai Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts Journal of Library and Information Studies information behavior collaborative information behavior cooperative learning curriculum development teacher education |
| title | Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts |
| title_full | Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts |
| title_fullStr | Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts |
| title_short | Preservice Teachers' Collaborative Information Behavior while Developing Curriculum in Cooperative Learning Contexts |
| title_sort | preservice teachers collaborative information behavior while developing curriculum in cooperative learning contexts |
| topic | information behavior collaborative information behavior cooperative learning curriculum development teacher education |
| url | https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j46-5.pdf |
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