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Neha Rani – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the growth of digital media, learners are presented with multiple options to choose from when looking for resources to learn from. Learning that happens during searching for items to learn from is called Search-as-Learning (SaL). Recommender Systems (RS) can aid in SaL by reducing information overload and providing item suggestions. An…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Information Literacy, Automation, Users (Information)
Kelsey Urgo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Search-as-learning research has emphasized the need to better support searchers when learning about complex topics online. Prior work in the learning sciences has shown that effective self-regulated learning (SRL), in which goals are a central function, is critical to improving learning outcomes. This dissertation investigates the influence of…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Goal Orientation, Self Management, Learning Strategies
Abogdera, Adel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed was that many college students face difficulty in retrieving relevant documents that satisfy their academic needs from web-based systems and digital libraries. The study purpose was to determine strategies that college students could employ to increase the relevance of materials retrieved via online search systems. The…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, College Students, Information Retrieval, Online Systems
Laurie A. Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The homogeneous nature of senior leadership in U.S. colleges and universities and the absence of diverse perspectives in decision making is cause for concern. The nation's college student population has become increasingly diverse, with Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander (API), and Indigenous groups making up 45% of 4-year college…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Search Committees (Personnel), College Administration, Diversity (Institutional)
Huyen Thuy Maluck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the effect of instructional scaffolding on information literacy skills of college students in an English Composition I (ENG 101) course at Urban Community College in the Southeast. Information literacy is defined as a set of skills to recognize an information need as well as locate, evaluate, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Vivian Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Academic music libraries in the US collect resources to support music students and faculty in their performance and research needs. These resources include non-text items such as musical scores and recordings that are difficult to represent in standard library information systems that were built for text items. The advent of web scale discovery…
Descriptors: Music, Academic Libraries, Information Seeking, Undergraduate Students
Allison R. Byrd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduate students are often overlooked as a critical audience when universities strategically communicate scientific research, and few resources are traditionally dedicated to graduate student recruitment. Graduate students additionally possess a myriad of characteristics -- including cultural -- that contribute to their decision to enroll in a…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Student Recruitment, Information Science
Dana L. Kirkwood-Watts – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Formative assessments (FA), which can occur in or out of class, are a way for students to demonstrate their understanding of the material, to see progress, and to receive feedback from instructors related to their learning process. Examples of in-class FAs include clicker questions with peer discussion, while homework assignments are an example of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Formative Evaluation
Matthew Frazier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Online educational resources (e.g., curricula, tutorials, documentation, Q&A sites) increasingly serve as key sources for secondary school students learning Computer Science Principles (CSP). A big obstacle to using these resources is finding information appropriate for the learning task and learner's background. Research shows that secondary…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Secondary School Students, Student Characteristics, Information Literacy
Alton, Noel T. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Research was conducted with 10 low literate and 10 medium to high literate students at the University of Baltimore to understand how traditional literacy impacts search habits for new college freshman. Five low literate, non-student participants were included in the research as a control group for the two student populations. It was hypothesized…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Literacy, Technological Literacy, Search Strategies
Frankosky, Rebecca Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Current search engines and information retrieval systems have made extraordinary progress towards interpreting and answering well-defined, direct questions. However, they are often unsatisfactory for assisting users with less well-defined information needs that often occur within an academic context. Examining students' search goals and search…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Graduate Students
Bailey, Earl – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Search expertise has long been studied and used extensively in information seeking behavior research, both as a fundamental concept and as a method of comparing groups of users. Unfortunately, while search expertise has been studied for some time, the conceptualization of it has lagged behind its use in categorizing users. This has led to users…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Online Searching, Expertise, Information Seeking
Zhu, Yongjun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the big data era, we have witnessed the explosion of scholarly literature. This explosion has imposed challenges to the retrieval of bibliographic information. Retrieval of intended bibliographic information has become challenging due to the overwhelming search results returned by bibliographic information retrieval systems for given input…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Graphs, Information Retrieval, User Needs (Information)
Jiang, Jiepu – ProQuest LLC, 2016
We study relevance judgment and user activities in a search session. We focus on ephemeral relevance--a contextual measurement regarding the amount of useful information a searcher acquired from a clicked result at a particular time--and two primary types of search activities--query reformulation and click. The purpose of the study is both…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Correlation, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
Shannon, George John – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research improves the precision of information extraction from free-form text via the use of cognitive-based approaches to natural language processing (NLP). Cognitive-based approaches are an important, and relatively new, area of research in NLP and search, as well as linguistics. Cognitive approaches enable significant improvements in both…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Accuracy, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis