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Children as Next of Kin: A Scoping Review of Support Interventions for Children Who Have a Parent with a Serious Physical Illness
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Järkestig Berggren, Ulrika; Hanson, Elizabeth – Child Care in Practice, 2016
Young children and adolescents who have a parent with a serious physical illness require information and support to cope with their everyday lives. The purpose of this scoping review was to summarise and disseminate the research findings of interventions that support children in families with a serious physically ill parent. The review also aimed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Intervention, Parents, Coping
Safeguarding Post-Laming: Initial Scoping Study. LGA Research Report
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Atkinson, Mary – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
The Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to undertake an initial scoping study into safeguarding post-Laming, with a view to undertaking further work if relevant. The purpose of the study was to identify research and literature produced since the Laming report was published in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Local Government, Educational Research, Social Services
An Exploratory Study of School-Age Children's Use of a Heterogeneous Resource Site
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Holmes, Jason; Robins, David; Zhang, Yin; Salaba, Athena – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
In this study, students' use of a new educational Web portal was evaluated with particular emphasis on searching and browsing strategies. The effects and implications of a federated search system are also discussed. Fifty-four students, ranging from 5th to 12th grade, were given five tasks to complete using the SchoolRooms interface. The tasks…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Time on Task, Information Literacy, Internet
Children's Search Engines from an Information Search Process Perspective.
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Broch, Elana – School Library Media Research, 2000
Describes cognitive and affective characteristics of children and teenagers that may affect their Web searching behavior. Reviews literature on children's searching in online public access catalogs (OPACs) and using digital libraries. Profiles two Web search engines. Discusses some of the difficulties children have searching the Web, in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval
Criteria for Comparing Children's Web Search Tools.
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Kuntz, Jerry – Library Computing, 1999
Presents criteria for evaluating and comparing Web search tools designed for children. Highlights include database size; accountability; categorization; search access methods; help files; spell check; URL searching; links to alternative search services; advertising; privacy policy; and layout and design. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, Advertising, Children
The Science Library Catalog: A Springboard for Information Literacy (and) Notes from ERIC.
Neuman, Delia, Ed.; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1996
Outlines the cognitive theories influencing the Science Library Catalog's (SLC) design; describes the catalog itself; explains research based on the SLC; and discusses research results, emphasizing findings that are most relevant to school library media specialists developing children's information skills. An annotated bibliography of 14 related…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Behavior Theories, Children, Cognitive Processes