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Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – School Library Media Quarterly, 1985
Identifies six successive stages in model of the library research process developed from the findings of study of high school seniors using library for two assigned research papers: initiating research assignment, selecting topic, exploring information, forming focus, collecting information, preparing to present. Assessment of the research process…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – 1984
An extension of a doctoral dissertation that studied a group of high school seniors while they used the library for two assigned research papers, this paper presents a process approach to library skills instruction for high school students. The doctoral study traced the research process used by the students through a number of devices including…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, High School Seniors, Library Instruction, Library Research
Peer reviewedKuhlthau, Carol Collier – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Describes a longitudinal study of students' perceptions of the information search process in libraries over a four-year period from high school through college. The discussion covers the cognitive theory on which the study was based, a model of the search process, and how closely students' perceptions matched the model. (26 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, High School Students, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKuhlthau, Carol Collier – RQ, 1988
Using qualitative methods, this study investigated the library search process of college-bound high school seniors. A six-stage model of the students' search process was developed from the thoughts, actions, and feelings commonly experienced. Using several theoretical bases, a grounded theory of the process of searching for information was…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, High School Seniors, Information Seeking, Library Skills
Peer reviewedKuhlthau, Carol Collier – Library and Information Science Research, 1988
Presents longitudinal case studies of four students in high school and after completion of college to compare their perceptions of the information search process in libraries. Library user studies are discussed, a model of the search process is described, and implications for the design of information systems are suggested. (36 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Systems
Download full textKuhlthau, Carol Collier – 1987
This review of the research literature describes and discusses functional/information literacy in the age of computers and the resulting "information explosion," together with means by which students can become competent information users in the future and be enabled to lead productive, meaningful lives. Defined as comprising library…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
