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Yuce, Alp Eren; Albayrak, Ahmet; Baran, Bahar; Kalafat, Özgür – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to understand the eHealth literacy skills of chronic patients and to explore the relations, patterns between eHealth literacy skills and different factors such as demographics, search strategies and health information sources and to explain their effects on eHealth literacy in Turkey in Izmir in COVID-19 outbreak.…
Descriptors: Patients, Foreign Countries, Health, Knowledge Level
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Yamaç, Ahmet; Öztürk, Ergün – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of this research is to examine the insights of preservice teachers' new literacies throughout online research and comprehension. The study is grounded in an online research and comprehension perspective. In the study, the action research design of qualitative approaches was selected as the method. The participants in the research were…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Technology
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Yang, Le – College & Research Libraries, 2016
This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element affects the discovery of items in a digital repository. The study found that keywords from Internet…
Descriptors: Metadata, Internet, Electronic Libraries, Search Engines
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Senkowski, Valerie; Branscum, Paul – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Background: Few studies have attempted to examine how young adults search for health information on the Internet, especially information related to weight control and weight management. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine search strategies that college students used for finding information related to weight control and weight…
Descriptors: Internet, Undergraduate Students, Vignettes, Search Strategies
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Reichow, Brian; Naples, Adam; Steinhoff, Timothy; Halpern, Jason; Volkmar, Fred R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The World Wide Web is one of the most common methods used by parents to find information on autism spectrum disorders and most consumers find information through search engines such as Google or Bing. However, little is known about how the search engines operate or the consistency of the results that are returned over time. This study presents the…
Descriptors: Autism, Search Engines, Internet, Online Searching
Organization for Autism Research, 2019
Parents of children with autism face many challenges that arise from the practical, day-to-day issues of living with autism. The specific goals of this guide are to help parents: (1) find information about autism; (2) distinguish between research-based and non-research-based information; (3) become savvy consumers of information by giving them the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Rearing, Parent Education
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Bowen Maier, Shannon – Journal of Archival Organization, 2011
The cataloging of otherwise unprocessed collections is an innovative minimal processing technique with important implications for reference service. This article mines the existing literature for how institutions engaged in minimal processing view reference, the strengths and weaknesses of catalog records as finding aids, and information about…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Cataloging, Archives, Access to Information
Bhatia, Sumit – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Online discussion forums have become popular in recent times. They provide a platform for people from different parts of the world sharing a common interest to come together and topics of mutual interest and seek solutions to their problems. There are hundreds of thousands of internet forums containing tens of millions of discussion threads and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Internet
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Mussell, Jessica; Croft, Rosie – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2013
Has your institution purchased discovery layer tools? Are you wondering how students are using them and how much return your institution is getting on that investment? Not only are there more resources available to students online than ever before, but there are also more avenues for students to discover those resources. The Royal Roads University…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Online Courses, Online Searching
Ilgaz, Hale; Mazma, Sacide Güzin; Altun, Arif – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
In this study, the "Information Seeking Strategies" scale that was developed by Mills, Knezek and Wakefield (2013) has been adapted to Turkish language. A confirmatory factor analysis was run and subsequently, two items were removed. The fact that these two items are related to learning in a traditional class environment may be…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Turkish, Factor Analysis
Alkhalaf, Ahmad Abdullah – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study explored university students' information seeking behaviors related to prescription medication (PM) information. Specifically, it examined the different sources students use for PM information, their use and perceptions of online sources, the types of PM information they seek, their concerns about, and methods they apply to verify the…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Seeking, Internet, Online Searching
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Wang, Ya; Howard, Pamela – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
Google Scholar is a free service that provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly works and to connect patrons with the resources libraries provide. The researchers in this study analyzed Google Scholar usage data from 2006 for three library tools at San Francisco State University: SFX link resolver, Web Access Management proxy server,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Internet
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Rush, Elizabeth K.; Tracy, Sarah J. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2010
To contribute to the forum asking "Has Communication Research Made a Difference?," this essay examines whether communication scholarship makes a difference (a) to those who search for information online, (b) in the sense that a primary way our research can make a difference is through its accessibility, and (c) by using the criteria of its…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Essays, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Colwell, Jamie; Hunt-Barron, Sarah; Reinking, David – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
Obstacles, and instructional responses to them, that emerged in two middle school science classes during a formative experiment investigating Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT), an instructional intervention aimed at increasing digital literacy on the Internet, are reported in this manuscript. Analysis of qualitative data revealed that IRT enabled…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Technological Literacy, Internet, Middle School Students
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Williams, Peter; Hanson-Baldauf, Dana – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2010
This paper contributes to an incremental base of research exploring usability issues related to information and communication experiences and needs of individuals with learning difficulties. A web portal designed specifically with the intended users in mind (i.e. individuals with learning difficulties) has been developed and piloted through a Rix…
Descriptors: Readability, Learning Disabilities, Internet, Access to Information
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