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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Internet searching."”.
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Internet searching as a study aid for information technology and information systems learners at a tertiary level
… However, it was also stated repeatedly that searching on the Internet using standard search engines is not an easy task. It was also noted that a move was taking place away from traditional teaching methods to those with more learner involvement, making use of new computer and communication …
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Design and implementation of a mobile agent management and tracking system.
… areas such as industrial manufacturing, Internet searching, electronic commerce, on-line shopping, network management, software distribution and many others. However in order to take full advantage from this technology we still need to address and solve some significant problems related …
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Computer Skills And Usage Of Students In Grades 10-12 Who Are Legally Blind: A Descriptive Analysis
… related to applications such as word processing, Internet searching, emailing, spreadsheets and databases.
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Factors affecting Utilisation of Electronic Information Resources and Services by Medical Students at the University of Zambia
… information resources;lack of effective internet searching skills by students to effectively exploit EIRs;fewer computers made available for the st6udents to use ;poor internet connnectivity such as internet corruption,power failure and insufficient bandwidth;and lack of awereness of the …
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Factors affecting Utilisation of Electronic Information Resources and Services by Medical Students at the University of Zambia
… information resources;lack of effective internet searching skills by students to effectively exploit EIRs;fewer computers made available for the st6udents to use ;poor internet connnectivity such as internet corruption,power failure and insufficient bandwidth;and lack of awereness of the …
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Developing Internet research skills among criminology honours students and researchers in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town : an evaluation of the methods and materials used for this purpose
… to fully utilise resources available through the Internet and other online databases, an online electronic research skills tutorial was developed and implemented. The aim of this research is to assess whether this tutorial is a useful and efficient method of imparting information literacy skills …
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Exploring internet research process and construction tasks as a technological skill development tool
… a tourist attraction with the assistance of the Internet. After the brochure was complete, participants were given an opportunity to reflect on the learning experience. Participants that spent more time creating were found to be more likely to report technological skill development. Changes to …
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The internet as a resource for research, teaching and learning : a comparative study between the University of Zimbabwe and University of Zululand
The Internet has been described as a collection of sprawling computer networks that link millions of computers used by tens of millions of people all over the world (Leedy 1997:66). From an initial few hundred computers, the Internet has grown exponentially enabling users to communicate with each …
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Accessing Information on the World Wide Web: Predicting Usage Based on Involvement
Advice for Web designers often includes an admonition to use short, scannable, bullet-pointed text, reflecting the common belief that browsing the Web most often involves scanning rather than reading. Literature from several disciplines focuses on the myriad combinations of factors related to …
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A comparative study of third-grade students' use of children's web directories
… Kidsclick to locate specific information on the Internet and then to compare the success rates of the two directories. The researcher taught a three-week unit of instruction on searching children's' Web directories to locate information. Students completed a five-question worksheet in which they …
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The use of the internet as a bibliotherapeutic tool for parents with children with disabilities or special needs : an exploratory study
… research looking at the use of the Internet as a bibliotherapeutic tool for parents with children with disabilities and special needs. This research used a small population of parents with children with diverse disabilities and investigated their Internet usage for information, their …
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University Students and the Internet: Information Seeking Study
… 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, factor analysis, and graphical …
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Creating a Criterion-Based Information Agent Through Data Mining for Automated Identification of Scholarly Research on the World Wide Web
This dissertation creates an information agent that correctly identifies Web pages containing scholarly research approximately 96% of the time. It does this by analyzing the Web page with a set of criteria, and then uses a classification tree to arrive at a decision. The criteria were gathered from …
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User perceptions of information quality in world wide web information retrieval behaviour
In less than a generation, the World Wide Web has grown from a relatively small cyber play-ground of academic "geeks" into an 11.5 billion-page collection of heterogeneous, inter-connected, network of information and collective knowledge. As an information environment the World Wide Web is …
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Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment
… models were developed before the onset of the Internet. This research project studied faculty members' use of and their information seeking behaviors and activities on the Internet at Angelo State University, a Master's I institution. Using both a quantitative and qualitative methodology, …
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Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Users’ Perception of the Navigation Organization of an E-Commerce Web Application
The object of this study was to assess the influence of native language, as a principal cultural characteristic, one users’ behavior when using a web-based e-commerce application. The study expands on previous research by comparing English and Russian users. The research also considered demographic …