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Main Author: Thompson, Christen
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2003
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ677309
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contents Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research. Thompson, Christen College Students Critical Thinking Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Internet Library Skills Relevance (Information Retrieval) Student Research Use Studies World Wide Web Reviews studies of student usage of the Internet to determine how they use the Web for research. Preliminary data suggest the majority of students begin a research assignment with the Internet, most often with a commercial search engine. Undetermined is whether students have adequate information literacy skills to find authoritative information and evaluate it for use in research. Evidence indicates room for improvement, including how library instruction is designed. (Author/AEF)
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spellingShingle Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research.
Thompson, Christen
College Students
Critical Thinking
Higher Education
Information Literacy
Information Skills
Internet
Library Skills
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Student Research
Use Studies
World Wide Web
Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research. Thompson, Christen College Students Critical Thinking Higher Education Information Literacy Information Skills Internet Library Skills Relevance (Information Retrieval) Student Research Use Studies World Wide Web Reviews studies of student usage of the Internet to determine how they use the Web for research. Preliminary data suggest the majority of students begin a research assignment with the Internet, most often with a commercial search engine. Undetermined is whether students have adequate information literacy skills to find authoritative information and evaluate it for use in research. Evidence indicates room for improvement, including how library instruction is designed. (Author/AEF)
title Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research.
topic College Students
Critical Thinking
Higher Education
Information Literacy
Information Skills
Internet
Library Skills
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Student Research
Use Studies
World Wide Web
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ677309