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Chen, Chen-Tung; Chang, Kai-Yi – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
The phenomenon of low fertility has been negatively impacted on the social structure of the educational environment in Taiwan. To increase the learning effectiveness of students became the most important issue for the Universities in Taiwan. Due to the subjective judgment of evaluators and the attributes of influenced factors are always fuzzy, it…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Saracevic, Tefko; Rees, Alan M. – 1966
The rapidly increasing amount of information retrieval experimentation necessitates that considerable attention be paid to the problems of experimental methodology. The authors feel that the generalized and well-known experience in the physical, life and behavioral sciences concerning the role of methodology in scientific research must be applied…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Experiments, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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Weissmann, V. E. – Information Processing and Management, 1986
The approach of J. D. Sneed is used to argue for a distinction between theoretical and nontheoretical (or empirical) entities. Attention is directed toward this approach as an important facility for looking at statistics and for constructing a framework for the correct use of statistical theory in information retrieval experiments. (MBR)
Descriptors: Experiments, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Mathematical Models
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Jarvelin, Kalervo; Vakkari, Pertti – Information Processing and Management, 1993
This content analysis of library and information science (LIS) research from 1965 to 1985 was conducted to determine the distribution of topics in research articles and the research methodologies that have been used. Results indicated that information storage and retrieval was the most popular topic and that empirical strategies predominated. (20…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Storage
Froehlich, Thomas J. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discusses the history of information science and its understanding of and approach to relevance; explains human categorization theory and applies it to the idea of relevance; shows that information science research is flawed because it fails to adequately explain experience; and suggests implications for future research. (17 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
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Pors, Niels Ole – Journal of Documentation, 2000
Introduces some of the considerations behind the teaching of research methodology at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark) at the masters level. Discusses information retrieval experiments; sampling problems; the concept of a model; and statistical analysis and its role in information retrieval experiments. (Contains 25…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Library Schools
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Egghe, L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Zipf's law states that if words in a text are arranged in decreasing order of occurrence, then the product of the rank of a word and the number of times it occurs is a constant of that text. Examination of the probabilities of occurrence of multi-word phrases in information retrieval in relation to the probabilities of occurrence of single words…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Short, Edmund C. – 1970
The growing complexity of society has resulted in increased attention to the problem of knowledge production and utilization. This review of the scholarship pertaining to this subject traces the topic in its most general sense. Three fields of interest have received attention from researchers: 1) the relation of research to practice; 2) the nature…
Descriptors: Feedback, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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Wildemuth, Barbara M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
In conjunction with the American Society for Information Science and Technology's (ASIST) annual meeting in fall 2001, the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) sponsored a research symposium on "Effective Methods for Studying Information Seeking and Use." This article briefly reviews six articles presented at the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Seeking
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Belkin, N. J.; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1982
Reports on methodology and results of design study for an interactive information retrieval system funded by British Library Research and Development Department which will determine structural representations of anomalous states of knowledge (ASKs) underlying information needs. Problem statements, abstracts used, and text analysis are highlighted.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Foreign Countries, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
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Fidel, Raya – Library and Information Science Research, 1993
Reviews the literature on qualitative methods in information retrieval research. Qualitative research is shown to be noncontrolling, holistic and case oriented, about processes, open and flexible, diverse in methods, humanistic, inductive, and scientific. Relevance to library and information science and sources of information on qualitative…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Literature Reviews
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Oswitch, Pauline – Library and Information Science Research, 1983
Describes British Library's work on Systems Dynamics, a set of techniques for building simulation models based on analysis of information feedback loops. Highlights include macro-simulation modelling activities of social science disciplines, systems analyses and models of information retrieval processes and library services, policy models, and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Simulation, Games, Information Retrieval
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers