PsycINFO Tutorial: A Viable Instructional Alternative

Dorothy Persson; Carlette Washington-Hoagland

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PsycINFO Tutorial: A Viable Instructional Alternative

Dorothy Persson and Carlette Washington-Hoagland

Reference and user services quarterly, Vol.44(1), pp.67-77

10/01/2004

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Abstract

This article questions the effectiveness and overall applicability of a tutorial as an instructional alternative to in-class instruction. A tutorial was developed to instruct undergraduate students in a high-enrollment psychology course, in the use of the PsycINFO database. A pretest and posttest instrument was developed to evaluate retained information. The results demonstrated that the tutorial significantly increased undergraduate students' understanding and use of the PsycINFO database, and that the resources used to develop the tutorial were well spent.

Library instruction

Boolean searching

Databases

Computer assisted instruction

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Posttests

Tutorials

Psychological research

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Title: Subtitle: PsycINFO Tutorial: A Viable Instructional Alternative
Creators: Dorothy Persson
Carlette Washington-Hoagland
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Reference and user services quarterly, Vol.44(1), pp.67-77
Publisher: American Library Association
ISSN: 1094-9054
eISSN: 2163-5242
Language: English
Date published: 10/01/2004
Academic Unit: Library Administration
Record Identifier: 9983993171102771

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