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Peer reviewedAgosto, Denise E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Investigated behavioral decision-making theories of bounded rationality and satisficing in relation to young people's decision making in the World Wide Web and considered the role of personal preferences. Results of this study of ninth- and tenth-grade females consider time constraints, information overload, physical constraints, reduction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Females, Grade 10
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
