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Cognitive Styles and Searching.
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Ford, Nigel; And Others – Online & CD-ROM Review, 1994
An analysis of 275 searches of a LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) CD-ROM conducted by 67 master's students determined that different cognitive styles (comprehension, operation, versatile, field dependent, and field independent) resulted in different search behaviors and search outcomes, with and without postings information.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Information Science
Individual Differences in Information Seeking: An Empirical Study.
Ford, Nigel; Wilson, Tom; Ellis, David; Foster, Allen; Spink, Amanda – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Provides preliminary results from a study of mediated information retrieval at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) based on data from 121 information seekers who requested mediated searches. Focuses on results related to the relationship between participants' gender, cognitive styles, and information seeking behaviors. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Higher Education
Information-Seeking and Mediated Searching. Part 1. Theoretical Framework and Research Design.
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Spink, Amanda; Wilson, T. D.; Ford, Nigel; Foster, Allen; Ellis, David – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Presents the theoretical framework and research design of a project based on longitudinal data collected in the United Sates and the United Kingdom that investigated the processes of mediated information retrieval searching during human information-seeking processes. Topics include problem-solving; uncertainty; cognitive styles; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Information Accessing: An Empirical Study.
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Ford, Nigel; Ford, Rosalind – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discussion of information retrieval, knowledge representation, and computer-assisted learning focuses on a study that created a computer-based system designed to observe and record users' interactions with an ideal knowledge base consisting of unrevealed subject experts, appropriate documentation, and computer files. Information accessing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design
The Role of Individual Differences in Internet Searching: An Empirical Study.
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Ford, Nigel; Miller, David; Moss, Nicola – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
This article reports the results of a study of Master's degree students concerning the role of individual differences in Internet searching, including cognitive styles, levels of prior experience, Internet perceptions, study approaches, age, and gender. Discusses retrieval effectiveness and self-efficacy and suggests implications for system…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Computer System Design, Gender Issues
Cognitive Styles and Virtual Environments.
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Ford, Nigel – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Discussion of navigation through virtual information environments focuses on the need for robust user models that take into account individual differences. Considers Pask's information processing styles and strategies; deep (transformational) and surface (reproductive) learning; field dependence/independence; divergent/convergent thinking;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer System Design, Databases