Paper Info
Title
Teaching mathematics for search using a tutorial style of delivery
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 we outline some pedagogical challenges in teaching mathematics for information retrieval (IR) 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 by using a tutorial style of teaching. Results show that there is evidence to support the notion that a more pro-active style of teaching using tutorials yield benefits both in terms of assessment results and student satisfaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s10791-008-9078-4
Inf. Retr.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Information retrieval,Information science,Teaching,Boolean logic
Adjacency list,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information science,Natural language user interface,Target audience,Boolean algebra
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
2
1386-4564
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.46
2
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew Macfarlane114817.18