Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ459933
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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An Exploratory Study of Information-Seeking Behaviors and Learning with Hypermedia Information Systems.
Small, Ruth V.; Grabowski, Barbara L.
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, v1 n4 p445-64 1992
Describes a study that identified various individual information seeking behavior patterns and determined how users' motivation, prior knowledge, gender, and cognitive processing influenced learning and retention within a hypermedia environment for undergraduate students. Use of the Group Embedded Figures Test is described and further research is suggested. (22 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Information Seeking, Learning Strategies, Predictor Variables, Prior Learning, Research Needs, Retention (Psychology), Sex Differences, Student Motivation, Tables (Data), Undergraduate Students
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Group Embedded Figures Test
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