Professionals: Carol Gordon
Head Librarian, Educational Resources Library, Boston University.
Author of Measuring Up (Column in Knowledge Quest.), 2000-present.
Personal Website: http://people.bu.edu/cgordon/
Research Interests:
- Cognitive psychology and learning theory.
- Kuhlthau’s information search process.
- Management theory as applied to the school library program as an innovation.
- The theory of expected information and Bayesian statistics.
Articles Online:
Gordon, Carol A. Methods for Measuring the Influence
of Concept Mapping on Student Information Literacy. School Library Media Research,
5, 2002.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume52002/gordon.htm This
paper explores the theory of expected information, which uses formulas
derived from the Fano measure (1961) and Bayesian statistics (1764),
and demonstrates its application in a study on the effects of concept
mapping on the searching behavior of tenth-grade biology students.
Gordon, Carol A. The Effects of Concept Mapping
on the Searching Behavior of Tenth-Grade Students. School Library Media Research, 3,
2000.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume32000/mapping.htm A
qualitative study addressed the effect of concept mapping on the searching
behavior of tenth-grade students engaged in research projects based
on their instruction in a classroom-based genetics unit.
Gordon, Carol. Students As Authentic Researchers:
A New Prescription for the High School Research Assignment. School Library Media Research,
3,1999.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume21999/vol2gordon.htm Can
tenth graders in a qualitative action research study that investigates
the effectiveness of an assignment that requires primary research methods
and an essay of two thousand words.
Gordon, Carol A. The Place of the School Library
Media Program in the Accreditation Process of the New England
Association of Schools and Colleges. A Position Paper of
the New England Educational Media Association, 2002.
http://www.neema.org/NEASC.htm