From Classroom to Classroom: The Information Needs of Preservice Teachers
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 2010
Abstract
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Presentation Description
Preservice teachers, college students who are training to be teachers, have a unique set of information needs: they must continue to do classwork while also thinking about how to represent content to students of their own. This analysis of surveys and interviews administered to students in a teacher education program in a large Midwestern university provides evidence of these divergent needs. In particular, these students make a distinction between content knowledge a pedagogical knowledge that heavily influences their information seeking strategies and credibility judgments.
Keywords
Preservice teachers, Teacher education programs, Information seeking strategies, Source evaluation
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Erickson, Ander, "From Classroom to Classroom: The Information Needs of Preservice Teachers" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 51.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/51
From Classroom to Classroom: The Information Needs of Preservice Teachers
Room 2010
See presentation description.
