Skillful Internet Reader is Metacognitively Competent

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interrelations between information searching, textprocessing, information evaluation, and metacognition when upper-secondary school students are using Internet as a source for an essay. Students (n = 24) were asked to search for source material from the Internet in order to write an essay on a given topic. They were asked to verbalize their thoughts while they were gathering their source material. Their verbalizations and actions were recorded and analyzed. The results indicated that students who had difficulties in locating relevant information had to monitor their orientation and keep track of what to do next. Skillful students, in contrast, were able to plan and evaluate their performance, and adjust their activities to the task demands. These students were then able to focus more on elaborative text-processing. Thus, the present study supports the view that constructively responsive reading demands a metacognitively competent reader.

Digital competence – an emergent boundary concept for policy and educational research

“…The library study background and the literacy study background are difficult to separate; the authors of these background domains use the same terms and speak about the same phenomena (see Arnone and Reynolds 2009;Kiili, Laurinen, and Marttunen 2009). The common issue is to widen information skills (in library studies) towards (critical) literacy skills (in literacy studies), and vice versa.…”

“…The term Internet skills focuses on the use of various Internet functionalities: these skills have both a technical orientation and often also a knowledge orientation. As Kiili, Laurinen, and Marttunen (2009); they use Internet reading) state, it is not enough to have technical Internet skills, although the use of the Internet as a source of information is a basic skill. In their study, the focus was on finding, reading and evaluating information as well as planning one's own performance based on relevant information in the Internet.…”

“…These skills have also become more popular among educators because of the complexity of information on the Internet ( van Deursen and van Dijk 2009;Kiili, Laurinen, and Marttunen 2009). In addition, a good example of the analysis of this complexity is a study by Brand-Gruwel, Wopereis and Wermetten (2005), which analysed the Internet search procedures of experts and novices.…”

Working on Understanding During Collaborative Online Reading

“…Volet, Summers, and Thurman (2009) argue that when reading concentrates on gathering facts from the text it may not produce more than raw material from which knowledge may be constructed. Recent studies (Jedeskog & Nissen, 2004;Kiili Laurinen, & Marttunen, 2009) indicate that this, in fact, often happens during online reading with students. Many students concentrate on locating and gathering facts at the expense of deeply processing the information they find.…”

Hakulausekkeen muodostamisen vaikeus – nuorten ja opettajien taidot testissä

“…) Lapsilla ja nuorilla on aiemmissa tutkimuksissa todettu olevan vaikeuksia hakulausekkeiden muodostamisessa (esim. Kaarakainen & Saikkonen, 2017;Kammerer & Bohnacker, 2012;Kiili, 2012;Kiili, Laurinen, & Marttunen, 2008, 2009van Deursen, Görzig, van Delzen, Perik, & Stegeman, 2014;van Deursen & van Diepen, 2013;Walraven, Brand-Gruwel, & Boshuizen, 2008). Heillä on vain vähän aiempaa tiedonhakukokemusta, heidän käyttämänsä hakusyntaksit eivät ole kehittyneitä, he ovat kärsimättömiä tiedonhakuprosessin suhteen ja tekevät kirjoitusvirheitä (Jean ym., 2015;Walraven ym., 2008).…”