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Taylor, Arthur – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: Members of the millennial generation (born after 1982) have come of age in a society infused with technology and information. It is unclear how they determine the validity of information gathered, or whether or not validity is even a concern. Previous information search models based on mediated searches with different age groups may…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Generational Differences, Influence of Technology, Validity
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Lei, Pei-Lan; Lin, Sunny S. J.; Sun, Chuen-Tsai – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Image searches are now crucial for obtaining information, constructing knowledge, and building successful educational outcomes. We investigated how reading ability and Internet experience influence keyword-based image search behaviors and performance. We categorized 58 junior-high-school students into four groups of high/low reading ability and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Reading Ability, Internet
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Yarmey, Kristen – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Keeping up with today's rapid technological changes reveals itself vividly in the changing ways people attempt to gather information. This article describes a survey conducted by the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton which analyzed the information retrieval strategies employed by a cohort of undergraduate students. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Literacy, Technological Advancement, Information Retrieval
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Doan, Kim; Bloomfield, Aaron – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This study examined how 30 minutes of search time on the Web affected students' essay scores in response to a writing prompt. Expository essays were obtained from 49 fourth- and fifth-grade students enrolled in an elementary school in Virginia, in the United States. Students were placed by random assignment into three groups with the same writing…
Descriptors: Essays, Scores, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Use
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Robertson-Lang, Laura; Major, Sonya; Hemming, Heather – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2011
The Internet is an important resource for health information, among younger and older people alike. Unfortunately, there are limitations associated with online health information. Research is needed on the quality of information found online and on whether users are being critical consumers of the information they find. Also, there is a need for…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Older Adults, Search Strategies, Credibility
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Fajardo, Inmaculada; Parra, Elena; Canas, Jose J. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2010
The efficacy of video-based sign language (SL) navigation aids to improve Web search for Deaf Signers was tested by two experiments. Experiment 1 compared 2 navigation aids based on text hyperlinks linked to embedded SL videos, which differed in the spatial contiguity between the text hyperlink and SL video (contiguous vs. distant). Deaf Signers'…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deafness, Classification, Search Strategies
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Williams, Sarah C. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate how federated search engines are incorporated into the Web sites of libraries in the Association of Research Libraries. In 2009, information was gathered for each library in the Association of Research Libraries with a federated search engine. This included the name of the federated search service and…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Search Engines, Engines, Research Libraries
Nelson, Eric Derrand – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This work describes the design and construction of an open source, entity resolution system that enables users to assign and maintain persistent identifiers for master data items. Two key features of this system that are not available in current ER systems and that make persistent identification possible are (1) The capture and management of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Internet, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
Shafat, Gabriel; Levin, Ilya – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This paper deals with two types of logical problems--recognition problems and reverse engineering problems, and with the interrelations between these types of problems. The recognition problems are modeled in the form of a visual representation of various objects in a common pattern, with a composition of represented objects in the pattern.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Search Strategies
Martin, Andrea Eyleen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Natural language often contains dependencies that span words, phrases, or even sentences. Thus, language comprehension relies on recovering recently processed information from memory for subsequent interpretation. This dissertation investigates the memory operations that subserve dependency resolution through the lens of "verb-phrase ellipsis"…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Verbs
Alkhalaf, Ahmad Abdullah – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored university students' information seeking behaviors related to prescription medication (PM) information. Specifically, it examined the different sources students use for PM information, their use and perceptions of online sources, the types of PM information they seek, their concerns about, and methods they apply to verify the…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Seeking, Internet, Online Searching
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Turner, Nancy B. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
Usability testing on library search tools was conducted with ten students and eighteen library staff members at Syracuse University. The study addressed three research questions: (1) Do the ways in which librarians carry out search tasks on the library Web site vary from those of student users?; (2) Are those variations indicative of different…
Descriptors: Syntax, Testing, Internet, Librarians
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Wang, Ya; Howard, Pamela – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
Google Scholar is a free service that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly works and to connect patrons with the resources libraries provide. The researchers in this study analyzed Google Scholar usage data from 2006 for three library tools at San Francisco State University: SFX link resolver, Web Access Management proxy server,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Internet
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Luck, Donald D. – SRATE Journal, 2011
The development of the resource file is a common experience in teacher preparation programs. The author examines strategies for transforming what has been a project composed of physical resources to one emphasizing digital resources. Methods for finding, tagging, storing and retrieving resources are explored.
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
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Martinez, F. J.; Pastor, J. A.; Rodriguez, J. V.; Lopez, Rosana; Rodriguez, J. V., Jr. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: The Internet is a dynamic environment which is continuously being updated. Search engines have been, currently are and in all probability will continue to be the most popular systems in this information cosmos. Method: In this work, special attention has been paid to the series of changes made to search engines up to this point,…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Information Management, Use Studies
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