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Brandon, Esther – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
This article describes a 6-week module course called Just Google It! that the author developed and teaches each fall semester. Students who take the course explore personal data collection by private companies, search algorithms, identify implicit bias in the results, and learn the best recommended privacy and security practices. At the end of the…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Course Descriptions, Data Collection, Corporations
Taylor, Natalie Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation focuses on the perceptions that young people have of federal government websites and of the U.S. government, as well as exploring possible connections between the perceptions of government and government websites. Not only is this a virtually unstudied area of e-government and youth information behavior, but it is also of…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Web Sites, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students
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Lee, Jee Yeon; Paik, Woojin; Joo, Soohyung – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: This study aims to investigate the selection of information sources and to identify factors associated with the resource selection of undergraduate students for academic search tasks. Also, user perceptions of some factors, such as credibility, usefulness, accessibility and familiarity, were examined to classify resources by their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Familiarity, Information Sources
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Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Juhasz, Anne M. – J Sch Health, 1969
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Data Collection, Family Characteristics