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Brand-Gruwel, S.; Kammerer, Y.; van Meeuwen, L.; van Gog, T. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
Nowadays, almost everyone uses the World Wide Web (WWW) to search for information of any kind. In education, students frequently use the WWW for selecting information to accomplish assignments such as writing an essay or preparing a presentation. The evaluation of sources and information is an important sub-skill in this process. But many students…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Internet, Novices, Expertise
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Cress, U.; Held, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
Tagging systems represent the conceptual knowledge of a community. We experimentally tested whether people harness this collective knowledge when navigating through the Web. As a within-factor we manipulated people's prior knowledge (no knowledge vs. prior knowledge that was congruent/incongruent to the collective knowledge inherent in the tags).…
Descriptors: Classification, Internet, Prior Learning, Navigation (Information Systems)