The Information Retrieval Series Volume 31 SeriesEditor W. Bruce Croft Editorial Board ChengXiang Zhai Maarten de Rijke Nicholas J. Belkin Charles Clarke . Efthimis Efthimiadis (cid:129) Juan M. Ferna´ndez-Luna (cid:129) Juan F. Huete (cid:129) Andrew MacFarlane Editors Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval Editors EfthimisEfthimiadis AndrewMacFarlane UniversityofWashington CityUniversityLondon POBox352840 DepartmentofInformationScience Seattle,WA98195-2840 NorthamptonSquare USA LondonEC1V0HB [email protected] UnitedKingdom [email protected] JuanF.Huete JuanM.Ferna´ndez-Luna UniversidaddeGranada DepartamentodeCienciasdela Computacio´neInteligenciaArtificial C/PeriodistaDanielSaucedoAranda,s/n. 18071Granada Spain [email protected] jmfl[email protected] ISSN1387-5264 ISBN978-3-642-22510-9 e-ISBN978-3-642-22511-6 DOI10.1007/978-3-642-22511-6 SpringerHeidelbergDordrechtLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011938471 ACMComputingClassification(1998):H.3,K.3.2 # Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2011 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.Allrightsarereserved,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialis concerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting, reproductiononmicrofilmorinanyotherway,andstorageindatabanks.Duplicationofthispublication orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheGermanCopyrightLawofSeptember9,1965, initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Violationsareliable toprosecutionundertheGermanCopyrightLaw. 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We are very grateful for the refereesfortakingthetimetoproducethoroughreviewsforthechapterspresented inthisbook.Therefereeswereasfollows: DavidBawden,CityUniversityLondon,UK SuzanneBell,UniversityofRochester,USA DanielBlank,UniversityofBamberg,Germany FidelCacheda,UniversityofACorun˜a,Spain FazliCan,BilkentUniversity,Turkey PabloCastells,AutonomousUniversityofMadrid,Spain AnneDiekema,UtahStateUniversity,USA AyseGoker,CityUniversityLondon,UK KaiHalttunen,UniversityofTampere,Finland DickHartley,ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity,UK FrancesJohnson,ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity,UK DianeKelly,UniversityofNorthCarolina,USA DonaldKraft,LouisianaStateUniversity,USA MonicaLandoni,UniversityofLugano,Switzerland RayLarson,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,USA FotisLazarinis,TEIofMesolonghi,Greece RafaelLo´pezGarc´ıa,UniversityofACorun˜a,Spain Juan-AntonioMart´ınez-Comeche,UniversityComplutenseMadrid,Spain XiannongMeng,BucknellUniversity,USA StefanoMizzaro,UniversityofUdine,Italy vii viii Acknowledgements UmaMurthy,VirginiaTech,USA PaulineRafferty,AbersystwythUniversity,UK EdieRassmussen,UniversityofBritishColumbia,Canada IanRuthven,UniversityofStrathclyde,UK MarkSanderson,RMITUniversity,Australia AnabelaSerrano,ESEIG/InstitutoPolite´cnicodoPorto,Portugal DeboraShaw,IndianaUniversityBloomington,USA Jesu´sTramullas,UniversidaddeZaragoza,Spain ClareThornley,UniversityCollegeDublin,Ireland Jesu´sVegas,UniversidaddeValladolid,Spain Jose´ LuisVicedo,UniversityofAlicante,Spain SeungwonYang,VirginiaTech,USA Contents 1 IntroductiontoTeachingandLearninginInformation Retrieval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 EfthimisN.Efthimiadis,JuanM.Ferna´ndez-Luna,JuanF.Huete, andAndrewMacFarlane 2 FosteringStudentEngagementinanOnlineIRCourse. . . . . . . . . 9 SuzanneBell 3 TeachingIR:CurricularConsiderations. . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . .. 31 DanielBlank,NorbertFuhr,AndreasHenrich,ThomasMandl, ThomasR€olleke,HinrichSch€utze,andBennoStein 4 PedagogicalEnhancementsforInformationRetrievalCourses. . . 47 EdwardFox,UmaMurthy,SeungwonYang,RicardodaS.Torres, JavierVelasco-Martin,andGaryMarchionini 5 PedagogicalDesignandEvaluationofInteractiveInformation RetrievalLearningEnvironment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 KaiHalttunen 6 ShiftingContexts:RelatingtheUser,SearchandSystem inTeachingIR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 FrancesJohnson 7 ATechnicalApproachtoInformationRetrievalPedagogy. . . . . . . 89 RafaelLo´pez-Garc´ıaandFidelCacheda 8 UsingMultipleChoiceQuestionstoAssistLearning forInformationRetrieval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 AndrewMacFarlane 9 InformationRetrievalSystemsEvaluation:Learning andTeachingProcess. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Juan-AntonioMart´ınez-ComecheandFidelCacheda ix x Contents 10 TeachingWebInformationRetrievaltoComputerScience Students:ConcreteApproachandItsAnalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 StefanoMizzaro 11 IsaRelevantPieceofInformationaValidOne?Teaching CriticalEvaluationofOnlineInformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 JosianeMotheandGillesSahut 12 TrainingStudentstoEvaluateSearchEngines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 MarkSandersonandAmyWarner 13 TeachingInformationRetrievalThrough Problem-BasedLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 ClareThornley 14 EducationalResourceDevelopmentforInformationRetrieval inaDigitalLibrariesContext. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 SeungwonYang,SangheeOh,BarbaraM.Wildemuth, JeffreyP.Pomerantz,andEdwardFox Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213