Information searching in a CD-ROM encyclopaedia by school children
This study investigated the impact of formal instruction on information searching effectiveness and behaviour of secondary school children using a full-text CD-ROM encyclopaedia entitled The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia. Seventy-eight 13-year-old school children searching information were s...
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| author | Tan, Jean Lee. |
| author2 | Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan |
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| description | This study investigated the impact of formal instruction on information searching effectiveness and behaviour of secondary school children using a full-text CD-ROM encyclopaedia entitled The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia. Seventy-eight 13-year-old school children searching information were studied under two conditions. One group was given formal training and the other group was not given formal training. Two information-seeking strategies were taught to the subjects in the treatment group. They were a browse or title search strategy and a more complex, analytical strategy using Boolean query formulation. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/204702020-09-27T20:14:48Z Information searching in a CD-ROM encyclopaedia by school children Tan, Jean Lee. Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan School of Applied Science DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis This study investigated the impact of formal instruction on information searching effectiveness and behaviour of secondary school children using a full-text CD-ROM encyclopaedia entitled The 1996 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia. Seventy-eight 13-year-old school children searching information were studied under two conditions. One group was given formal training and the other group was not given formal training. Two information-seeking strategies were taught to the subjects in the treatment group. They were a browse or title search strategy and a more complex, analytical strategy using Boolean query formulation. Master of Science (Information Studies) 2009-12-15T03:04:22Z 2009-12-15T03:04:22Z 1998 1998 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20470 en NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY 91 p. application/pdf |
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| title_short | Information searching in a CD-ROM encyclopaedia by school children |
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