The Truth Is Out: How Students REALLY Search

Deyrup, Marta; Bloom, Beth

doi:10.5703/1288284315103

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“…When researching geographical conflicts the participating students showed problems with both the method of researching information effectively and the evaluation of information. Many students had problems with the appropriate use of search engines, dealing with search result pages and evaluating digital information, which supports previous findings (Deyrup & Bloom, 2012;Julien & Barker, 2009;Stanford History Education Group, 2016). It was striking that pupils adopted the arguments of authors of blogs, letters to the editor, and citizens' initiatives without scrutinising them.…”

Section: IIsupporting

confidence: 84%

Students’ approaches when researching complex geographical conflicts using the internet

Engelen

Budke

2020

JIL

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Many teachers hesitate to integrate internet research into their lessons as they face major uncertainties concerning their students’ competencies in retrieving, evaluating and processing digital information. Understanding complex geographical conflicts using the internet poses special challenges to students, as they need to obtain multi-dimensional, spatial and temporally relevant information to grasp the conflict in its entirety. In order to obtain insights into students’ digital researching strategies, a study was conducted in 2018 with 20 German secondary school students, who were asked to form their own opinion on a complex geographical conflict by searching the internet for useful information. The students were instructed to share their thoughts and actions aloud while undertaking the research. All digital activities and accompanying speech were recorded with screen and audio capture technology. The analysis of the transcripts consisted of a combination of qualitative and basic quantitative analysis, which led to the conclusion that students have very different abilities in identifying multi-dimensional information on complex geographical conflicts. The majority of the students neither used maps nor paid attention to publication dates of websites or information. Furthermore, none of the participants questioned the credibility of their retrieved digital information.

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Section: IIsupporting

confidence: 84%

Students’ approaches when researching complex geographical conflicts using the internet

Engelen

Budke

2020

JIL

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“…Graduate-level students are considered mature researchers; however, they also approach Google as the first point of contact for information and only later consult knowledge resources in libraries (Williamson et al, 2008). Even senior students may lack Boolean and other advanced search strategies (Bloom and Deyrup, 2012). Likewise, undergraduate students lack the ability to access information (Carter-Templeton et al, 2013;Hussain et al, 2022;Ozor and Toner, 2022).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information competency assessment of undergraduates: A Pakistani perspective

Irfan,

Rafiq,

Arif

2024

IFLA Journal

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Students who possess information competency are better equipped to use the large volumes of data at their disposal and think critically and creatively. This study aims to address the research gap in Pakistani higher education by examining the information competency of undergraduate students at a premier university. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 669 undergraduates, using descriptive and inferential statistics to draw inferences. The study found that students perceived their information competency to be slightly higher than average, with no significant difference based on gender or academic year. The subject domain significantly predicted students’ information competency level, with engineering students expressing higher information competency levels than students from other disciplines. The social sciences group of students reported feeling less information competent compared to the other five groups. The study addresses the literature gap and provides crucial measures for academicians and library practitioners to create effective digital and information literacy programmes for university students.

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“…The pair have gained national attention with their Googlesponsored research entitled "The Truth is Out: How They Really Search. " 1 They invited Rider University to participate with them on the discovery tool research following a very similar methodology. Our data has been collected concurrently and as a larger group we will be conducting an ethnographic analysis of the data.…”

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confidence: 99%