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Using Information Problem-Solving Activities to Teach: An Exploratory Study Designed to Improve Teacher Competencies Related to Internet Use in the Classroom
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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
Middle-School Students' Online Information Problem Solving Behaviors on the Information Retrieval Interface
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Yeh, Yi-Fen; Hsu, Ying-Shao; Chuang, Fu-Tai; Hwang, Fu-Kwun – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
With the near-overload of online information, it is necessary to equip our students with the skills necessary to deal with Information Problem Solving (IPS). This study also intended to help students develop major IPS strategies with the assistance of an instructor's scaffolding in a designed IPS course as well as on an Online Information…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educational Technology, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy
Effect of Reading Ability and Internet Experience on Keyword-Based Image Search
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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
Children's Use of the "Yahooligans!" Web Search Engine: II. Cognitive and Physical Behaviors on Research Tasks.
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Bilal, Dania – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Reports the results of the second part of a research project that investigated the cognitive and physical behaviors of middle school students (17 seventh grade students) in using "Yahooligans!" to locate relevant information for an assigned research task. Sixty-nine percent partially succeeded, while 31% failed. Implications for formal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Information Retrieval
Literature on the Web: Guided Searching.
Berry, Dave – MultiMedia Schools, 1998
Describes guided research pages, which eliminate the enormous amount of time it can take to refine a World Wide Web search and give that time, instead, to student research. Discusses advantages, and presents examples of simple, interactive, and dynamic guided pages for the seventh- and eighth-grade classroom. (AEF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Grade 8, Information Retrieval
Factors Influencing Children's and Adults' Information Seeking on the Web: Results of Two Studies.
Bilal, Dania; Kirby, Joe – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Investigates the success and information-seeking behavior of seventh-grade children and graduate students in using the Yahooligans! Web search engine/directory to find the correct answer for a fact-based search task. Analyzes and compares the overall patterns of children's and graduate students' Web traversal behaviors, including searching,…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Graduate Students
Effectively Using Technology To Develop Independent Research Topics by Middle School Language Arts Students.
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Carper, Leona Jayne – 1996
This practicum was designed to increase the effective use of technology by language arts students in middle schools involved in independent research activities. Technology was made available to students in the classroom and in the library to use as a resource to investigate and research topics. Seventh grade students (n=57) were given instruction…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Grade 7, Internet, Junior High Schools