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Nahl, Diane – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
This report includes data on the cognitive and affective behavior of college students who were given the tasks of interpreting and formulating Boolean search statements. Two versions of written point-of-use instructions on Boolean searching, affectively elaborated and unelaborated, were given to investigate comprehension, self-confidence, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension
Download full textHussam, Ali; Ford, Brian; Ludwig, Gail; Prewitt, Mike; Anderson, Terry – 1998
The main method of locating information on the World Wide Web is to use a search engine. Given a set of terms, a search engine will return a list of documents containing those terms. Often, though, this list of documents is extremely large. Unfortunately, there are currently no tools to assist the information seeker in determining whether these…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Text, Error Patterns
