User Criteria in Relevance Evaluation: Toward Development of a Measurement Scale.

Schamber, Linda; Bateman, Judy

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ERIC Number: EJ557184

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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User Criteria in Relevance Evaluation: Toward Development of a Measurement Scale.

Schamber, Linda; Bateman, Judy

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, v33 p218-25 1996

Presents preliminary findings of a project intended to develop a user-validated measurement instrument based on users' relevance criteria. Two validation tests revealed conceptual and methodological challenges involving the semantic ambiguity of terms and verified the importance of situational context to scale development and use. (Author/AEF)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Measurement Techniques, Rating Scales, Relevance (Information Retrieval), User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Paper presented at the ASIS Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD, October 21-24, 1996).