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On-the-Go Sourcing: Rethinking Education and Technology
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Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This article creates a data-driven framework for the previously unframed concept of "on-the-go sourcing" (spontaneous actions anywhere, anytime or anyhow, whereby one instantly retrieves materials using the most accessible tools to obtain information about encountered matters). This framework was extracted from a pool of approximately…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Barriers, Information Retrieval
Comprehending and Learning from Internet Sources: Processing Patterns of Better and Poorer Learners
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Goldman, Susan R.; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Wiley, Jennifer; Graesser, Arthur C.; Brodowinska, Kamila – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
Readers increasingly attempt to understand and learn from information sources they find on the Internet. Doing so highlights the crucial role that evaluative processes play in selecting and making sense of the information. In a prior study, Wiley et al. (2009, Experiment 1) asked undergraduates to perform a web-based inquiry task about volcanoes…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Protocol Analysis, Information Literacy
The Nature of Situation Assessment in New Information Retrieval Environments.
Cool, Colleen – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Describes a model of information retrieval as social interaction, which distinguishes between three types of information interaction goals: (1) task-oriented; (2) topically oriented; and (3) those centered around situation assessment (SA). Results suggest that SA is an important cognitive activity in new information retrieval environments; SA…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Sources
Obtaining Information Accurately and Quickly: Are Structured Abstracts More Efficient?
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Hartley, James; And Others – Journal of Information Science, 1996
Structured abstracts containing several subheadings (background, aim, method, results, and conclusions) have replaced traditional abstracts in most medical journals. The results of 2 studies, the first of 52 readers using an electronic database and the second of 56 readers using a printed database, suggest that it is easier for readers to search…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cognitive Processes, Databases, Electronic Text
The Design of Document Retrieval Systems for Academic Users: Implications of Students on Users' Relevance Criteria.
Wang, Peiling – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Proposes principles for the design of effective document retrieval (DR) systems incorporating users' cognitive behaviors. Addresses three issues: (1) effective representations for documents to enable users' relevance judgments and decision making; (2) efficient presentations of documents to facilitate users' information processing and decision…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer System Design, Decision Making, Document Delivery
What Is Used during Cognitive Processing in Information Retrieval and Library Searching? Eleven Sources of Search Information.
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Michel, Dee Andy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Presents a taxonomy of 11 sources of information used during library and database searching based on observations of 49 searches in a variety of libraries and search situations. Three categories of sources are identified: those internal to the searcher, those created by the searcher, and those external to the searcher. (Contains 54 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Databases