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Peer reviewedMartinsen, Oyvind – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1994
The relationship between cognitive style, achievement motives, and problem solving performance was investigated in two studies involving a total of 362 Norwegian high school students solving insight problems. Findings support the hypothesis of optimal motivation of Atkinson (1980). (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
Irgens, Berit – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Reports on an empirical study of how end-users utilize an online bibliographic information system available on the World Wide Web by analyzing the use of a union catalog of academic libraries in Norway. Discusses how hypertext links affect search behavior and considers individual differences in search behavior and problem solving. Interview…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Hypermedia
