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Etienne Vallée; Carrie Fair – Knowledge Quest, 2023
This article discusses a quest-based approach to teaching catalog skills and getting to learn more about students reading interests. Quest-based activities are meaningful and can be quite engaging, not to mention entertaining and stimulating (Snelson 2022). They provide choice and differentiate the learning experience, as well as multiple pathways…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Learning Activities, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Biskjaer, Michael Mose; Christensen, Bo T.; Friis-Olivarius, Morten; Abildgaard, Sille J. J.; Lundqvist, Caroline; Halskov, Kim – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Searching for sources of inspiration is central to creative design; however, we have limited knowledge of individual inspiration search strategies in response to varying levels of task constraints. We studied 39 high-school students' inspiration search strategies using Google Images. Low task constrainedness led to "divergent search"…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Search Strategies, High School Students, Creativity
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Ivory, Amy; Viens, Lisha – Knowledge Quest, 2019
When talking about collection development, few school librarians think about databases. Databases provide learners with a one-stop shop for cross-curricular, up-to-date, vetted information in a structured and easy-to-manipulate format for class projects. To be successful learners, students need to know how to use a database to find the information…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Materials, High School Students, Search Strategies
Medina Coronado, Daniela; Nagamine Miyashiro, Mercedes María – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2019
When observing in the high school as well as higher education classrooms, the way adolescents and young people study, the idea of knowing if they have strategies for autonomous learning and if this variable explained to some extent a critical problem in Peru arose: reading comprehension. That is why it was proposed as a purpose of the study, to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy, Reading Comprehension, High School Students
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Ibieta, Andrea; Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Labbé, Christian – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
Research shows that students face a range of difficulties when using the Internet to solve information problems. Using a quasi-experimental design, we tested a strategy to improve Chilean 10th graders' skills for information problem solving using the Internet (IPS-I). The intervention was based on a workshop in which students learned IPS-I…
Descriptors: Internet, Problem Solving, Grade 10, Workshops
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Sendurur, Emine; Efendioglu, Esra; Senturk, Halil; Caliskan, Neslihan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2019
This case study aims to explore how high-achievers search the web for two different task types: easy vs. difficult. It took place in a science high school accepting students according to national exam scores. 10 voluntary students participated in the sessions. They were assigned two tasks with no time limitation. Screens were recorded and a…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Achievement, Science Education, Special Schools
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Camiling, Mark Kenneth S. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2019
The Internet has become a chief health information source. It is posited that people who use the Web for health information must possess requisite eHealth literacy to avoid misuse. eHealth literacy refers to the skills in searching, retrieving, understanding, evaluating, and applying online health information to alter or maintain well-being. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students
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Merkt, Martin; Schwan, Stephan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
This study was concerned with identifying prerequisites for the successful use of videos that offer different levels of interactivity. In a homework scenario, 64 ninth graders participated either in a search training demonstrating the efficient use of features facilitating the selection of relevant information or in a control training focusing on…
Descriptors: Interactive Video, Homework, Grade 9, Training
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2019
Digital engagement is the most important strategy for engaging Generation Z, but what are the right solutions and strategies to maximize engagement with this crucial target market? Which approaches align with the expectations of the students colleges are trying to reach? And more importantly, how can a college make its institution's unique brand…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Recruitment, College Choice, Search Strategies
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Lin, Che-Li; Hou, Huei-Tse; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
The present study aims to explore the behavioral patterns of the social knowledge construction process and the online searching behaviors in a collaborative problem solving learning activity for high school students, and further compares the different behavioral patterns of the high- and low-performing teams. A total of 78 high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Online Searching
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Naumann, Johannes; Salmerón, Ladislao – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study investigated interactive effects of navigation and offline comprehension skill on digital reading performance. As indicators of navigation, relevant page selection and irrelevant page selection were considered. In 533 Spanish high school students aged 11-17 positive effects of offline comprehension skill and relevant page selection on…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Electronic Publishing, Reading Tests
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Kim, Sung Un – School Library Research, 2015
This researcher sought to examine enablers and inhibitors to English language learner (ELL) students' research process within the framework of Carol C. Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP). At a high school forty-eight ELL students in three classes, an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, and a biology teacher participated in the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Research, High School Students, Barriers
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Mentzer, Nathan; Fosmire, Michael J. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2015
This study measured the information gathering behaviors of high school students who had taken engineering design courses as they solved a design problem. The authors investigated what types of information students accessed, its quality, when it was accessed during the students' process, and if it impacted their thinking during the activity.…
Descriptors: High School Students, User Needs (Information), Engineering Technology, Design
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
Character education is an inclusive concept regarding all aspects of how families, schools, and related social institutions support the positive character development of children and adults. "Character" in this context refers to the moral and ethical qualities of persons as well as the demonstration of those qualities in their emotional…
Descriptors: Values Education, Intervention, Ethics, Elementary Schools
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Morano, Stephanie; Riccomini, Paul J. – Preventing School Failure, 2017
The body of peer-tutoring intervention research targeting higher order learning (HOL) objectives for middle and high school students with disabilities is reviewed. Peer-tutoring outcomes are synthesized and studies are analyzed to examine the influence of tutoring procedures and study design features on intervention efficacy. Findings show that…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
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