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Publication Date: 1993
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Searching for Information.
Dreher, Mariam Jean, Ed.; Guthrie, John T., Ed.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v18 n2 p127-279 Apr 1993
The growing body of research investigating how people search for or locate information in a variety of materials is reviewed and extended. Although the nature of materials and the complexity of locating tasks varies in the seven articles, each aims to elucidate the conditions that affect search processes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Tables (Data), Textbooks, User Needs (Information), Visual Aids
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Language: English
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