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Large, Andrew; Beheshti, Jamshid; Moukdad, Haidar – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Reports on research into the information-seeking habits of primary school children conducted under operational conditions. Findings reveal: the novice users favored browsing over analytic search strategies, although they showed some sophistication in construction of the latter; online help was ignored; and the children demonstrated a very high…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Information Seeking, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedLarge, Andrew; Beheshti, Jamshid; Rahman, Tarjin – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Reports the results of an empirical study into gender differences in collaborative Web searching, conducted in a Canadian school. Searches undertaken by same-sex groups of two or three sixth-grade students. Analysis of search sessions reveals the boys formulated queries comprising fewer keywords than the girls; boys spent less time on individual…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Education, Females, Foreign Countries
