Students' conceptions of information retrieval

Students’ conceptions of information retrieval: Implications for the design of learning environments

In order to design information retrieval (IR) learning environments and instruction, it is important to explore learners' conceptions of the domain to be examined. This study addresses the issue by investigating students' conceptions of IR know-how and its implications for designing learning environments for information retrieval. The focus of this study is the integration of research on IR ins...

analysis of reading comprehension needs of the students of paramedical studies: the case of the students of health information management (him)

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Philosophical Conceptions of Information

Thus boldly declares Euphranor, one of the defenders of Christian faith in Berkley’s Alciphron (Berkeley, (1732), Dialogue 1, Section 5, Paragraph 6/10). Evidently, information has been an object of philosophical desire for some time, well before the computer revolution, Internet or the dot.com pandemonium (see for example Dunn (2001) and Adams (2003)). Yet what does Euphranor love, exactly? Wh...

Instructing occupational therapy students in information retrieval.

The effectiveness of a brief program designed to teach occupational therapy students enrolled in a graduate research methods class to conduct searches of four electronic databases was investigated. Students in the experimental class read an instructional booklet and received approximately 1 hour of supervised practice time using compact disk--read-only memory (CD-ROM) equipment. Questionnaire d...

Assessing Students ' Conceptions of Reform Mathematics