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Direct linkRiddell, Judith E. – English in Education, 2016
This article is based on part of a case study looking into how sixth form students search for goal related information online for an open-ended task. Qualitative data was gathered through think-aloud protocols; analysis was informed by Afflerbach and Cho's (2009) Hypertext reading strategies. From the perspective of multiple documents literacy and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Sources
Goh, Tiong-Thye – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This paper investigates differences in how male and female students perceived a short message service (SMS) library catalog search service when adopting it. Based on a sample of 90 students, the results suggest that there are significant differences in perceived usefulness and intention to use but no significant differences in self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Females, Self Efficacy, Intention, Libraries
Roy, Marguerite; Chi, Michelene T. H. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
There has been a national call for increased use of computers and technology in schools. Currently, however, little is known about how students use and learn from these technologies. This study explores how eighth-grade students use the Web to search for, browse, and find information in response to a specific prompt (how mosquitoes find their…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Internet, Females, Males
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
Nicholls, Paul; Holtmann, Susanne – Laserdisk Professional, 1989
Compares free text versus controlled vocabulary searching for information relating to women's issues on the ERIC laserdisk database from Dialog. Topics discussed include terminology and women's studies; Boolean operators; and adequacy of the ERIC thesaurus for searching relevant topics including women's social roles, antiabortion movement, teenage…
Descriptors: Abortions, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Females
Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima Saado – Online Submission, 2002
150 female graduate students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were interviewed. Since most students are not proficient in English, they are required to take an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course when admitted to the M.A. and Ph. D. programs, as locating information in specialized journals is required for their assignments,…
Descriptors: Females, Graduate Students, Search Strategies, Foreign Countries
