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Georgas, Helen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This study examines the information-seeking behavior of undergraduate students within a research context. Student searches were recorded while the participants used Google and a library (federated) search tool to find sources (one book, two articles, and one other source of their choosing) for a selected topic. The undergraduates in this study…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Search Engines, Online Searching, Information Seeking
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Perrault, Anne Marie – School Library Media Research, 2007
This study reports on exploratory research that investigated biology teachers' perceptions of their online information seeking practices and how these practices influenced their instructional planning activities. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the results of an online survey and ten in-depth interviews measuring use of specific online…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Inquiry, Search Engines, Active Learning