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      Pedagogic challenges in Information Retrieval – teaching mathematics to Postgraduate Information Science students

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      First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007) (TLIR)
      Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
      10 January 2007
      Information Retrieval, information science, teaching, Boolean logic
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            Abstract

            Understanding of mathematics is needed to underpin the process of search, either explicitly with Exact Match (Boolean logic, adjacency) or implicitly with Best match natural language search. In this paper I outline some pedagogical challenges in teaching mathematics for information retrieval to postgraduate information science students. The aim is to take these challenges either found by experience or in the literature, to identify both theoretical and practical ideas in order to improve the delivery of the material and positively affect the learning of the target audience. Some ideas are put forward to resolve these issues and to promote discussion.

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            Conference
            January 2007
            January 2007
            : 1-6
            Affiliations
            [0001]Department of information Science, Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/TLIR2007.6
            1ae57ebd-3e7f-4ed3-9747-dc108f835696
            © Andrew MacFarlane et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007), London, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2007)
            TLIR
            1
            London, UK
            10 January 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/TLIR2007.6
            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Boolean logic,teaching,information science,Information Retrieval

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