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Baildon, Rindi; Baildon, Mark – Reading Teacher, 2008
The development and use of a research tool to guide fourth-grade students' use of information sources during a research project is described in this article. Over a period of five weeks, 21 fourth-grade students in an international school in Singapore participated in a study investigating the extent to which the use of a "research resource…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Readability, Information Sources, Credibility
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Hanna, Kim – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
Student use of computers and the internet has increased rapidly in recent years. Teachers ask what types of learning experiences can be facilitated by using the internet in their classrooms (NSBF, 2007). Various surveys of U.S. teachers on internet usage report that having students use the internet for research and information gathering purposes…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Internet, Self Motivation, Middle School Students
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Schuh, Kathy L.; Farrell, Courtney A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the Internet as a research tool on elementary students' quality of writing, their perceptions of effort expended, and their resource media preference in writing an expository paper. We gathered data from 56 upper-elementary students as they wrote expository papers using print resources,…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Printed Materials, Expository Writing, Internet