1. ‘ Journals contain facts unlike the daily mail’ Implementation of an inquiry-based learning task enabling evaluation of information sources. Myles Jones 1 & Pam McKinney 2 Department of Psychology 1 , Centre for Inquiry-Based learning in the Arts and Social Sciences 2 The University of Sheffield PEBBLE: Psychological Enquiry-based Learning
17. Did you notice any differences between the BBC online news article and the journal article? There were massive differences between the BBC article and the journal. First of all, the respective titles of both pieces of research were totally different, however similar. The BBC was titled “ Babies ‘have favourite colours’” in comparison to the journal title, “New evidence for infant colour categories”. The journal itself was detailed, containing graphs and reliable statistics, none of which were mentioned in the BBC article. The journal also used several different experiments to ensure the validity of the initial experiment, of which none was mentioned in the BBC article . The BBC article also managed to miss out the fact that adults were used in the research experiment as a form of control, to allow the infants results to be compared to an adults, to see if the presence of colour categories existed in 4 month old children. I feel that the BBC article took all the interesting and easy pieces of information from the journal article and summarised it into a readable, public format , which could describe the results in a round-about way, to keep the public updated with current infant research, without providing too much information which may cause confusion to the reader.
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Notes de l'éditeur
Welcome to the session, My name is Pamela McKinney and I’m a learning development and research associate at the University of Sheffield with a specialist interest in Information Literacy. My colleague here is Sandra Turkington, a resources team manager from the University Library. Today I’m going to be talking about a project that took place in the Department of Psychology to embed information literacy and inquiry based learning in a level one semester one module.