Sources: Becoming Confident Teachers: A Guide for Academic Librarians

Claire McGuinness. Becoming Confident Teachers: A Guide for Academic Librarians. Oxford, United Kingdom: Chandos Publishing, 2011. 227p. $80.00 (ISBN 9781843346296). Distributed in the United States by Neal-Schuman Publishers

Teachers: A Guide for Academic Librarians is a book that I wish that I had had when I was an MLIS student formulating my sense of professional identity, or when I was a freshly minted librarian navigating the job market and preparing to interview for instruction librarian positions. In clear and engaging prose, McGuinness neatly encapsulates the critical elements of what it means to be an instr...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

The Internet and Information Skills: A Guide for Teachers and School Librarians

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Data Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Becoming Confident in the Statistical Nature of Human Confidence Judgments

In this issue of Neuron, Sanders et al. (2016) demonstrate that human confidence judgments seem to arise from computations compatible with statistical decision theory, shining a new light on the old questions of how such judgments are formed.