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Stenseth, Tonje; Strømsø, Helge I. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
When navigating through the vast amount of information that we encounter in our everyday lives, we constantly make decisions concerning what information to read more closely and what information to disregard. Consideration of the relevance and trustworthiness of information sources facilitates those decisions. In the present study, we interviewed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Critical Reading, Information Sources
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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