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The Rep Test and Other Sorting Tasks in ILS Research

The Rep Test and Other Sorting Tasks in ILS Research. Phillip M. Edwards and Amy VanScoy {phillip.m.edwards, vanscoy}@unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science CB #3360, 100 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360

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The Rep Test and Other Sorting Tasks in ILS Research

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  1. The Rep Test and Other Sorting Tasks in ILS Research Phillip M. Edwards and Amy VanScoy {phillip.m.edwards, vanscoy}@unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science CB #3360, 100 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Slides will be available via: http://www.unc.edu/home/pmedward/

  2. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] The “canonical” techniques Vignettes of sorting tasks in ILS research In practice: Designs, challenges, and benefits Overview

  3. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] The “canonical” techniques

  4. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Designed to elicit constructs and contrasts about people (and self) Multiple variations: • Minimum Context Form w/ Role Title Sheet • Minimum Context Card Form • Sequential Form • Full Context Form • Repertory grid Kelly, G. A. 1955. Theory and personality. Vol.1 of The psychology of personal constructs. New York: W. W. Norton. Role Construct Repertory Test

  5. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Spradley, J. P. 1970. You owe yourself a drunk: An ethnography of urban nomads. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. “Beautiful research” using the minimum context card form

  6. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Vignettes of sorting tasks in ILS research

  7. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Kwasnik, B. H. 1991. The importance of document factors that are not document attributes in the organization of personal documents. Journal of Documentation 47 (4): 389-98.

  8. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Carlyle, A. 2001. Developing organized information displays for voluminous works: A study of user clustering behaviors. Information Processing & Management 37 (5): 677-99.

  9. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Tennis, J. T. 2003. Data collection for controlled vocabulary interoperability—Dublin Core audience element. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (December/January): 20-3. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/tennis.html.

  10. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] McKnight, C. 2000. The personal construction of information space. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51 (8): 730-3.

  11. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] “…the Role Repertory Grid Procedure and the thematic analysis employed in this research to analyze responses seemed a valuable way to identify the entire spectrum of possible responses” (p. 202) Potthoff, J. K., Weis, D. L., Montanelli, D. S., and Murbach, M. M. 2000.  An evaluation of patron perceptions of library space using the role repertory grid procedure. College & Research Libraries 61 (3): 191-203.

  12. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Crudge, S. E., and Johnson, C. 2004. Using the information seerker to elicit construct models for search engine evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 55 (9): 794-806.

  13. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] In practice: Designs, benefits, and challenges Edwards, P. M. Forthcoming. Mapping scholars’ decision processes and factors that influence how they publish and distribute their work. PhD diss., University of Washington.

  14. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] • Guiding question: • How do scholars make decisions about where they publish or how they distribute their work? • Method: • Collected CVs from participants • Critical incident/decision interview • Full context form of the Rep Test Research Design

  15. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Results from multiple approaches Investigator-selected items Participant-suggested items Red items were volunteered for discussion by the participant during the direct interview. Black items were discussed by the participant only during the full context rep test. *A: GFH, CE, NJ, OH, and B03. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2008). *B: TLT, LJ, B03, OJ, NY, HD, A-QM, and TUT. ISME J (2008). *C: OH, GFH, and B03. Plant Signaling & Behavior (2006). [Version available at a co-author’s website] *D: OH, GFH, and B03. Plant Signaling & Behavior (2006). *E: GFD, TU, UO, LX, HD, and B03. Trends in Plant Science (2006). *F: TU, PTU, TGE, and B03. Plant Signaling & Behavior (2006). *G: TU, TGE, and B03. Planta (2005). *H: UU, NU, and B03. J. Exptl. Bot. (2005). I: TU, TGE, and B03. In [edited volume], , edited by HD, TO, and FX. (2006). J: GFD, TU, UO, HD, and B03. Trends in Plant Science (2007). K: OU, OO, XU, GD, and B03. Plant Science Bulletin (2008). L: B03. Plant Cell Environ (1999). M: LVOG, ERM, and B03. Plant Physiol. (1991). [Version available at PubMed Central] *01: MCU, and B03. Plant Cell and Environment. (2004). *02: UU, NU, and B03. Functional Plant Biology. (2003). *03: OH, NCJ, CGE, PTU, GFH, and B03. Planta. (2003). *04: unpublished pt 2 to B03_A *05: B03, TGE, and OY. Planta (1990). [pt. 2] *06: B03, and TGE. Planta. (1990). [pt. 1] *07: B03, and TGE. Planta (1977). *08: B03, and TGE. Planta. (1980). *09: LV, YET, ELE, PM, LGJ, and B03. Plant Physiology. (1981). *10: ROP, B03, and TGE. Plant Physiology. (1988). *11: DU, OU, and B03. Journal of Experimental Botany. (1989). *12: LT, B03, and VOJ. Tree Physiology. (1990). *13: RCN, B03, and TGE. Plant Physiology. (1990). *14: LVOG, ERM, and B03. Plant Physiology. (1991).

  16. [Presented on January 22, 2009 at the ALISE Annual Conference, Denver, CO] Moving beyond the “superficial” constructs and contrasts Understanding or eliciting elements needed for the most effective/illuminating sorting process Challenges

  17. The Rep Test and Other Sorting Tasks in ILS Research Phillip M. Edwards and Amy VanScoy {phillip.m.edwards, vanscoy}@unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science CB #3360, 100 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Slides will be available via: http://www.unc.edu/home/pmedward/

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