Assessing Information Literacy Instruction in the Basic Communication Course

Information literacy is becoming a key component of general education programs nationwide. As a critical part of most general education programs, the basic communication course is on the frontlines of the charge to teach information literacy skills to first-year students. Thus, the information literacy skills of basic course students should be assessed to track the effectiveness of instruction and pedagogical practices. The present study used a pretest/posttest design with experimental and control groups to assess the effectiveness of information literacy instruction in the basic course. As predicted, students in the experimental group outperformed students in the control group on the information literacy measure. Results of the present study have implications for basic course directors and instructors, general education curriculum specialists, and librarians.     

Self-Help Books About Communication and the Communication Course: An Exercise in Assessing Popular Notions of Communication Using Theory

Objective: The objective of this activity is to help students evaluate practical advice about communication with theories of communication

Applicable courses: This activity can be adopted by a variety of different communication courses including: persuasion, interpersonal (family, gender, and/or intercultural), organizational or small-group communication, and other communication courses     

Sexual Communication in the Family: Handling a Delicate Topic in the Family Communication Course

Goal/Objective: The overall goal is to allow students to discuss their perceptions of sex and sex education, and realize the importance of these issues as a communicative topic within the family; students will identify and articulate their perceptions about, and experiences with, sex education in family communication interactions

Courses: This activity can be used primarily in Family Communication, but may apply in other applicable courses such as Gender Communication     

核心业务的迷途与图书馆基础服务弱化走向

图书馆核心业务的确立对整体工作产生了重要的影响,而被作为核心的参考咨询服务的实际成果已经令人质疑。同时,在许多图书馆,基础服务弱化趋势已经显现,核心论的负面影响也已十分明显。因此,从面向所有读者的需要出发,应该淡化核心业务的理念、正确界定业务外包范围、重新厘清参考咨询服务职能,从而踏实地做好基础服务工作。     

比特管理在知识经济时代的运用

如果说,20世纪企业最有价值的资产是生产设备,那么,21世纪最宝贵的资产将是知识工作和知识工作者的生产率。知识经济时代的新特征必然带来经营管理的相应变革。由于劳动生产力的提高,企业中从事体力劳动的人员大大减少,相反从事脑力劳动的员工人数和比例     

Community Partners' Assessment of Service Learning in an Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Course

This assessment explored community partners' perceptions of service learning in a required communication course. Semi-structured interviews revealed that community partners believed that students were providing needed and valuable service, students were learning about the community, and students were learning through their application of course skills in an applied context. However, community partners also felt that students were unaware of or did not care what they should be learning, that faculty contact was rare or nonexistent, and that community feedback opportunities were rare and undervalued by faculty. Results suggest specific improvements necessary in service learning assignment design.     

A Typological Examination of Communication Competence and Mental Health in Stepchildren

Despite continued interest in communication and family functioning, researchers have been challenged to adequately describe the complicated dynamics and complex configurations of stepfamilies. This study extends previous stepfamily research by classifying stepchildren according to their beliefs and experiences with key dimensions of stepfamily life, and by examining differences in perceptions of communication competence and mental health among different stepfamily types. Participants included 586 stepchildren from four different states who completed a series of survey measures. Results of cluster and discriminant analyses revealed five discrete types of stepfamilies, including bonded, functional, ambivalent, evasive, and conflictual stepfamilies. Estimates of validity for the typology revealed significant differences in self-reported communication competence and mental health among the five stepfamily types, as well as significant differences in perceptions of mothers’ and stepparents’ communication competence.     

谈谈计算机文化基础课教与学的改革

近年来,以多媒体计算机为核心的CAI(计算机辅助教学)在我国发展很快,并迅速在高校普及,但是设备的普及不等于教学就能达到良好的效果,本文探讨了作为大学生必备知识的计算机文化基础课,在教学过程中存在的一些问题,并针对这些问题应采取的相应对策发表了个人意见.     

Do-It-Yourself for Course Reserves: A Student-Driven Service in an Academic Library

Texas A&M University Libraries has been hard at work putting the power of course reserves in the hands of its users. Reserves services have traditionally been restrictive, granting only faculty the authority to place items on reserve or allowing students access to items only after they have been checked out. From faculty adding streaming content to their e-reserves to students having hands-on access to their course reserves, this article tells the story of how an academic library system is allowing its patrons to “do-it-themselves.”     

特色服务：新形势下提高图书馆服务质量的路径抉择

通过对图书馆特色服务的内涵和必要性的分析,认为特色服务是一种为适应社会发展需要,以特色馆藏为服务内容,以主动、开放、系统为服务方式,以特定读者为服务对象的服务形式,是图书馆提高服务质量,彰显自身信息价值,增强竞争力的路径抉择。同时还对广东几所高校图书馆开展的特色服务工作中的一些问题进行了必要的探讨。     

数字参考咨询服务是加快高职院校图书馆发展的途径

指出在高职院校图书馆发展过程中，要加快发展数字参考咨询服务的意义和途径，要加强队伍建设。     

A Trim and Fill Examination of the Extent of Publication Bias in Communication Research

Publication bias can occur when a study is not published in an academic journal because the study did not find a statistically significant result. It can bias meta-analytic estimates upwards because the meta-analyses are missing studies that provide small estimates of the effect size under study. This paper describes the trim and fill technique of estimating the impact of publication bias on meta-analyses (Duval & Tweedie, 2000a, 2000b) and provides a working example. A sample of 68 meta-analyses of communication research were tested for publication bias using the trim and fill technique. The results suggest that most communication meta-analyses are not substantially affected by publication bias.     

Understanding Emotion from a Superordinate Dimensional Perspective: A Productive Way Forward for Communication Processes and Effects Studies

Subjects differing in interpersonal construct differentiation completed both an attitude measure and a behavioral intentions measure (in which subjects’ behavioral intentions in each of nine attitude‐relevant interpersonal situations were assessed) toward a subject‐selected target person. While the overall correlation between attitude and the behavioral intentions index was high (r = .85,), low‐differentiation subjects displayed significantly greater attitude‐behavioral intentions consistency (r = .95,) than did high‐differentiation subjects (r = .75). Correspondingly low differentiation subjects exhibited significantly less variability in the evaluative direction of their behavioral intentions than did high‐differentiation subjects (construct differentiation and variance in individuals’ behavioral intentions were correlated, r = .37). The results are interpreted as suggesting that within a given domain, persons with developmentally less advanced cognitive systems place greater reliance on evaluative consistency principles in organizing their beliefs and behaviors and hence are more likely to exhibit attitude‐behavior consistency than are persons with more developed systems.     

数字化文献传播中的法律控制

本文通过对数字化文献的界定,分析了数字化文献在传播过程中涉及的侵权行为以及国内外对数字化文献传播中的法律控制现状和存在的问题,并对我国数字化文献方面的立法问题提出了一些建议。     

数字化文献传播中的法律控制

本文通过对数字化文献的界定 ,分析了数字化文献在传播过程中涉及的侵权行为以及国内外对数字化文献传播中的法律控制现状和存在的问题 ,并对我国数字化文献方面的立法问题提出了一些建议。     

长尾理论在图书馆参考咨询工作中的应用

文章通过阐述长尾理论的内涵,将长尾理论应用于图书馆参考咨询工作中,用以解决图书馆参考咨询服务中的问题.     

未来传播视野下内容范式的三个价值维度——对于传播学一个元概念的探析

新一代信息技术革命正推动着新一代内容范式的建构。作为一种新的内容范式,内容在作为资讯传达的深度价值之外,还具有作为情感和关系表达的宽度价值,以及内容作为一种传播场景的媒介价值。虽然资讯内容的价值属性未改变,但专业媒介面临工作重心从直接内容生产向数据挖掘与生产组织协调的转型。泛众化传播到来的同时传播的情感和关系属性被放大,视频表达的宽信息容量彰显了内容作为引发关系认同和情感共鸣的宽度价值。面对碎片化传播语境与流动中的用户,无所不在、无处不有的内容作为一种场景的媒介价值显现出来--通过内容聚合趣缘用户,再通过数据驱动建构场景连接,最后促进供需双方的价值变现。     

追寻图书馆本质的新成果--《图书馆学基础教程》述评

《图书馆学基础教程》是一部独特的专著式教材。它试图以“知识集合”作为图书馆学的研究对象，但由于“知识集合”具有模糊性，缺乏专指性，所以，这部教材最终未能追寻到图书馆的本质，因而也未找到图书馆学的研究对象。     

公共图书馆读者服务存在的问题及其解决办法

本文列举了当前公共图书馆读者服务存在的主要问题并提出了解决问题的办法。