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Natalia Stanusch – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This study offers an analysis and comparison of search results from Google concerning the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in two geographically and politically different contexts: the United States and Italy. As new AI systems, tools, and solutions are developed and implemented in each sector of human life on a global scale, certain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Cross Cultural Studies
Alexander Pachanov; Catharina Münte; Julian Hirt; Dawid Pieper – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
While geographic search filters exist, few of them are validated and there are currently none that focus on Germany. We aimed to develop and validate a highly sensitive geographic search filter for MEDLINE (PubMed) that identifies studies about Germany. First, using the relative recall method, we created a gold standard set of studies about…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Web Sites
Luca Botturi; Loredana Addimando; Martin Hermida; Azza Bouleimen; Chiara Beretta; Silvia Giordano – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2025
Information Literacy education is challenged by an ever-changing and complex environment. The design and development of current and effective Information Literacy education requires a thorough understanding of how young people search information online, which mainly happens with generalist search engines. The present study involved a voluntary…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Information Literacy, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
Inny Accioly; Luciane da Silva Nascimento; Kleyton Vieira Sales da Costa; André de Melo Modenesi – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The article analyzed the damages of the ultraconservative culture war to public education in Brazil, specifically in higher education. The main objective was understanding how the culture war aligns with the neoliberal agenda to dismantle public and free universities. The inquiry analyzed the strategies of the ultraconservatives to gain political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, State Universities, Political Attitudes
Ait-Adda, Samia; Bousbia, Nabila; Balla, Amar – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023
Our aim in this paper is to improve the efficiency of a learning process by using learners' traces to detect particular needs. The analysis of the semantic path of a learner or group of learners during the learning process can allow detecting those students who are in needs of help as well as identify the insufficiently mastered concepts. We…
Descriptors: Semantics, Learning Processes, Learning Analytics, Models
Hagiwara, Yasuko; Ishita, Emi; Watanabe, Yukiko; Tomiura, Yoichi – College & Research Libraries, 2022
This study focuses on differences in the scholarly search approaches of researchers and students in contemporary information environments by examining use of academic resources and elements in search results (such as title or abstract) to identify scholarly search knowledge and skills. To examine how users select documents for different search…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Search Strategies
Kumps, Audrey; Temperman, Gaetan; De Lievre, Bruno – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
In French-speaking Belgium, one of the new tasks of the teacher will be to develop the informational skills of learners. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to identify the variables that affect the performance of online information retrieval so that teachers can plan appropriate teaching activities. The statistical Classification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Information Retrieval
Ibieta, Andrea; Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Labbé, Christian – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
Research shows that students face a range of difficulties when using the Internet to solve information problems. Using a quasi-experimental design, we tested a strategy to improve Chilean 10th graders' skills for information problem solving using the Internet (IPS-I). The intervention was based on a workshop in which students learned IPS-I…
Descriptors: Internet, Problem Solving, Grade 10, Workshops
Sendurur, Emine; Efendioglu, Esra; Senturk, Halil; Caliskan, Neslihan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2019
This case study aims to explore how high-achievers search the web for two different task types: easy vs. difficult. It took place in a science high school accepting students according to national exam scores. 10 voluntary students participated in the sessions. They were assigned two tasks with no time limitation. Screens were recorded and a…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Achievement, Science Education, Special Schools
Salmerón, Ladislao; Fajardo, Inmaculada; Gómez-Puerta, Marcos – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
Internet offers people with intellectual disabilities (ID) unique opportunities to access information and to participate in society. But concerns have been raised about the potential risks they face when accessing the Internet (e.g. giving credit to false information, being exposed to manipulative content). As part of the current debate between…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Adults, Internet, Information Literacy
Tomaszewski, Robert – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Critical thinking and analytical problem-solving skills in research involves using different search strategies. A proposed concept for an "Imploded Boolean Search" combines three unique identifiable field types to perform a search: keyword(s), numerical value(s), and a chemical structure or reaction. The object of this type of search is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry, Case Studies
Alaofi, Marwah; Rumantir, Grace – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2015
This research explores the application of implicit personalisation techniques in information retrieval in the context of education. Motivated by the large and ever-growing volume of resources in digital libraries, coupled with students' limited experience in searching for these resources, particularly in translating their information needs into…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Electronic Libraries, Online Searching, Enrollment
Dong, Yan; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Yu, Yue-Yue; Wu, Jui-Chi; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between Chinese higher education students' epistemic beliefs and their judgmental standards of searching for literature online. Data were collected from 449 higher education students (152 college students and 297 graduate students) in Beijing via two self-reported questionnaires: one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Rutter, Sophie; Ford, Nigel; Clough, Paul – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: This paper investigates techniques used by children in year 4 (age eight to nine) of a UK primary school to reformulate their queries, and how they use information retrieval systems to support query reformulation. Method: An in-depth study analysing the interactions of twelve children carrying out search tasks in a primary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Young Children, Search Strategies
Riddell, Judith E. – English in Education, 2016
This article is based on part of a case study looking into how sixth form students search for goal related information online for an open-ended task. Qualitative data was gathered through think-aloud protocols; analysis was informed by Afflerbach and Cho's (2009) Hypertext reading strategies. From the perspective of multiple documents literacy and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Sources