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López Vicent, Patricia; Serrano, José Luis; Gutiérrez Porlán, Isabel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
The purpose of the present study is to delve into the process of personal management of digital information among Spanish university students in their final year and to analyze whether there are similarities or differences regarding students' gender. A non-experimental methodological design has been implemented of an exploratory type and based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Information Management, Information Technology
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Rutter, Sophie; Clough, Paul D.; Toms, Elaine G. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2019
Introduction: This study provides insights into the talk (defined here as any verbal utterances issued during a search activity) that children (ages 10 and 11) engage in when finding information on the Internet for two teacher-assigned tasks with different search goals: a specific item task where the goal is to find particular information, and a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Search Strategies, Online Searching, Internet
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Miller, Angie – Knowledge Quest, 2018
Librarianship is an ever-changing journey that follows the evolution of media literacy. Currently, students live in an Internet world where politicians scream "Fake news!" at reports they don't like; foreign governments create actual fake news; and journalism seamlessly blends the genres of reporting and commenting. Students must learn…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role, Internet
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Chu, Shin Ying; Ng, Lay Shi; McConnell, Grace – TESL-EJ, 2022
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a three-dimensional approach to professional services in which high-quality and current research evidence is integrated with practitioner expertise along with client values to inform assessment and treatment decisions. The primary objective of this study is to promote the importance of EBPs for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Internet, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Ibieta, Andrea; Labbé, Christian; Soto, María Teresa – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Many studies show that a large percentage of students lack the digital competencies to solve information problems using the internet. To address this problem, researchers have developed models to structure the process. However, we maintain that it is first necessary to understand how students actually search for information online when solving an…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Problem Solving, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Ibieta, Andrea; Labbé, Christian – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2021
Studies show that students and teachers frequently use the internet for learning and teaching, but that both lack the skills necessary to utilise it effectively. The authors designed an intervention to develop teachers' information search skills and improve the information problem-solving using the internet (IPS-I) tasks that they implement with…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Internet, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Weber, Hannes; Hillmert, Steffen; Rott, Karin Julia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
The Internet has become a pivotal source of information among university students. However, studies routinely show that many students lack digital information literacy skills (i.e. skills needed to find and evaluate information online). In this paper, we report results from an experimental study testing the effect of a workshop for third-year…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Literacy, Technological Literacy, Information Seeking
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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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Engelen, Eva; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
Many teachers hesitate to integrate internet research into their lessons as they face major uncertainties concerning their students' competencies in retrieving, evaluating and processing digital information. Understanding complex geographical conflicts using the internet poses special challenges to students, as they need to obtain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Internet, Student Research
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Chen, Yu-Jung; Chien, Hui-Min; Kao, Chia-Pin – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to explore preschool teachers' evaluation standards and searching strategies during their online searching process, focusing on the difference between pre-service and in-service teachers. A total of 408 pre-service and in-service preschool teachers in Taiwan participated in the survey research. The validity and…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Strategies, Preschool Teachers, Standards
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Barnes, Laura L. B.; Khojasteh, Jam J.; Wheeler, Denna – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: This study aimed to identify predominant search patterns in a recent search for health information and a potential search for strongly needed cancer information, to identify the commonly scanned sources of information that may represent stable elements of the information fields characteristic of these patterns, and to evaluate whether…
Descriptors: Cancer, Information Seeking, Correlation, Search Strategies
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Bellon-Harn, Monica L.; Smith, Danielle J.; Dockens, Ashley L.; Manchaiah, Vinaya; Azios, Jamie H. – Reading Improvement, 2018
Problem: Although many young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are intellectually capable of pursuing college degrees, a high percentage either do not enroll in or do not graduate from two-year or four-year institutions. Online student support services may uniquely support the higher education goals of this population. Understanding…
Descriptors: College Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Readability
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Salmerón, Ladislao; Fajardo, Inmaculada; Gómez-Puerta, Marcos – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
Internet offers people with intellectual disabilities (ID) unique opportunities to access information and to participate in society. But concerns have been raised about the potential risks they face when accessing the Internet (e.g. giving credit to false information, being exposed to manipulative content). As part of the current debate between…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Adults, Internet, Information Literacy
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Yamaç, Ahmet; Öztürk, Ergün – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of this research is to examine the insights of preservice teachers' new literacies throughout online research and comprehension. The study is grounded in an online research and comprehension perspective. In the study, the action research design of qualitative approaches was selected as the method. The participants in the research were…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Technology
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