Children's Internet Searching on Complex Problems: Performance and Process Analyses.

Schacter, John; Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Dorr, Aimee

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Publication Date: 1998

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Children's Internet Searching on Complex Problems: Performance and Process Analyses.

Schacter, John; Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Dorr, Aimee

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v49 n9 p840-49 1998

This study examined the effects of task structure on fifth- and sixth-grade students' information seeking on the Internet. Results indicated that children prefer browsing to analytic-based searching. They have difficulty finding relevant information on the Internet; however, they searched more effectively on the ill-defined task than on the well-defined one. Contains 50 references. (AEF)

Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Information Seeking, Intermediate Grades, Internet, Online Searching, Problem Solving, Task Analysis, Users (Information)

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Language: English

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