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Peer reviewedHaas, David F.; Kraft, Donald H. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
This paper examines representative research in information science and compares its designs to an abstract ideal of the experimental research design. Threats to validity of conclusions are highlighted, including history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, selection biases, experimental mortality, and selection-maturation…
Descriptors: Information Science, Models, Research Design, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedTague-Sutcliffe, Jean – Information Processing and Management, 1992
This overview of the research process for the novice information retrieval (IR) researcher provides guidance on selecting a research question, choosing the type of test, defining variables, developing or using databases, finding and processing queries, assigning treatments to experimental units, collecting and analyzing the data, and presenting…
Descriptors: Databases, Efficiency, Experiments, Information Retrieval
