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Peer reviewedWildemuth, Barbara M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Describes a study of medical students that was conducted to evaluate measures of performance on factual searches of INQUIRER, a full-text database in microbiology. Measures relating to recall, precision, search term overlap, and efficiency are discussed; reliability and construct validity are considered; and implications for future research are…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Correlation, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods
