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Wilson, Cristina G.; Qian, Feifei; Jerolmack, Douglas J.; Roberts, Sonia; Ham, Jonathan; Koditschek, Daniel; Shipley, Thomas F. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
How do scientists generate and weight candidate queries for hypothesis testing, and how does learning from observations or experimental data impact query selection? Field sciences offer a compelling context to ask these questions because query selection and adaptation involves consideration of the spatiotemporal arrangement of data, and therefore…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Data Collection, Information Seeking, Decision Making
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Malik, Kaleem Razzaq; Mir, Rizwan Riaz; Farhan, Muhammad; Rafiq, Tariq; Aslam, Muhammad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Research in era of data representation to contribute and improve key data policy involving the assessment of learning, training and English language competency. Students are required to communicate in English with high level impact using language and influence. The electronic technology works to assess students' questions positively enabling…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Search Strategies
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Yuan, Xiaojun; Zhang, Xiangman; Chen, Chaomei; Avery, Joshua M. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2011
Introduction: This study investigated the effect of cognitive styles on users' information-seeking task performance using a knowledge domain information visualization system called CiteSpace. Method: Sixteen graduate students participated in a user experiment. Each completed an extended cognitive style analysis wholistic-analytic test (the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Visualization
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Nichols, Jane; Mellinger, Margaret – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
In spring 2005, a task force of Oregon State University librarians investigated whether undergraduates would gravitate toward subject portals tentatively named "virtual college libraries." A literature review and Web site inventory shaped our definition of a virtual college library. A preliminary needs assessment consisting of an online…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Needs Assessment, Focus Groups, College Libraries
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis