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Understanding Internet Searching Performance in a Heterogeneous Portal for K-12 Students: Search Success, Search Time, Strategy, and Effort
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Zhang, Yin; Robins, David; Holmes, Jason; Salaba, Athena – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
This study sought to better understand search performance using an online portal containing a collection of heterogeneous library resources for K-12 students. Search performance is examined in terms of search success, search time, strategy, and effort. This study revealed unsuccessful searches tended to take longer than successful searches;…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Search Strategies, Online Searching, Information Literacy