One or many? Assessing different delivery timing for information resources relevant to assignments during the semester. A work-in-progress

One or Many? Assessing different delivery timing for information resources relevant to assignments during the semester.An opportunity for a small study occurred when the authors were asked to come speak with different sections of the same first year course – Fundamentals of Speech Communication – that were associated with engineering learning communities. The course instructors were interested indifferent delivery models, one choosing a single, 50 minute lecture early in the semester; the other choosing four, approximately 12 minute lectures to be offered just before each assignment was given. The authors coordinated what material would be presented to the students to minimize variation between the sections.The goal of the project was to determine if the timing of the library content presentation made a difference in what resources students used for each of the four assignments in the class. To accomplish this, the citations for each section were rated for overall quality and compared to each other to determine if a difference was evident.Each speech assignment required students to turn in an outline and list of references. The list of references for each student were appropriately anonymized, then analyzed using the first 3sections of the citation coding protocol presented by Wertz, et al (2011).