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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Information seeking process"”.
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Secondary school students and the information seeking process
… secondary school students held of the information seeking process and what behaviours the students used to initiate and carry out an information search. The study was conducted in a secondary school in North Central British Columbia, with students from Two Grade 8 and two Grade 10 …
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The information-seeking process of blind and visually impaired Grade 12 learners in selected South African schools for the blind
All people seek information for various reasons sometime during their lifetime. How this process has been researched and documented by various researchers is covered in this thesis, showing how the insights and lessons from various Information Seeking Models in the literature have informed and …
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Culturally-Relevant Information Literacy: A Case Study
Information Literacy is a process for finding, using, evaluating and incorporating information into an individuals’ knowledge base. This process has been formalized into the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The concept of Information Literacy as articulated in …
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A study of parental information seeking and implications for school choice
This study was designed to investigate the information seeking process of parents in choosing schools of preferences. To accomplish this goal, this research pursued parents living in Williamsburg-James City County, Virginia, where families presently are unable to choose schools within the public …
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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure
… the impact of an algorithm system during online information consumption on selective exposure behavior. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a neutral condition where presented articles are balanced in attitudinal valence; an algorithm condition where presented articles …
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Information Seeking Among Women Who Are Homeless And Pregnant: A Phenomenological Exploration
Information behavior is a comprehensive term for the interaction’s humans have with information, comprising complex practices rooted within the dynamics of an individual’s everyday personal, social, and cultural contexts. Information science research has noted associations between certain …
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Social Comparison And Information Seeking: College Students' Sexual Health Information Management In The Context Of Online Support Groups
<p>Considering that information seekers often search and pay attention to others' stories and narratives about their health issues, the purpose of this dissertation is to investigate college students' information seeking process with regards to sexual health information in online support groups. …
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University Students and the Internet: Information Seeking Study
This study explored university students' information needs and seeking behaviors on the Internet. A Web-based survey was administrated one time. Two hundred responses were received from the target sample within the two weeks period of the study. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, …
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Curiosity driven search experiences
… express and satisfy hedonistic needs rather than information needs as part of the information-seeking process. For example, individuals who search their social media universe for hours after a long day at work may do so out of curiosity, to relax or for fun (e.g. exploring for the experience). …
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Supporting the Discovery of Long-Tail Resources on the Web
… by proactively retrieving and presenting information based on a user’s context. However, zero-effort queries over existing digital library structures are challenging, since the underlying retrieval system is only accessible via an API. The information need must be expressed by a query, …
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The development of a model of information seeking behaviour of students in higher education when using internet search engines.
This thesis develops a model of Web information seeking behaviour of postgraduate students with a specific focus on Web search engines' use. It extends Marchionini's eight stage model of information seeking, geared towards electronic environments, to holistically encompass the physical, cognitive, …
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Information-seeking and sharing behaviors among fire service field staff instructors: a qualitative study
… service field staff instructors seek and share information and use information sources during their instructional work of teaching, training and curriculum development. This study is the first attempt to study their information-seeking and sharing behaviors, which have not previously been …
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Digital Searching: A Grounded Theory Study on the Modern Search Experience
… Grounded theory study explores US adults' modern information search process as they pursue information through digital search user interfaces and tools. To study the current search process, a systematic grounded theory methodology and two data collection methods, a think-aloud protocol and …