Tracking middle school students' information behavior via Kuhlthau's ISP Model:Temporality

Abstract

The article reports a field study investigating the temporality of the information behavior of 44 grade 8 students from initiation to completion of their school inquiry‐based history project. The conceptual framework for the study is Kuhlthau's 6‐stage information‐search process (ISP) model. The objective of the study is to test and extend ISP model concepts. As per other ISP model studies, our study measured the evolution of the feelings, thoughts, and actions of the study participants over the 3‐month period of their class project. The unique feature of this study is the unlimited access the researchers had to a real‐life history class, resulting in 12 separate measuring periods. We report 2 important findings of the study. First, through factor analysis, we determined 5 factors that define the temporality of completing an inquiry‐based project for these grade 8 students. The second main finding is the importance of the students' consultations with their classmates, siblings, parents, and teachers in the construction of the knowledge necessary to complete their project.

From multistage information-seeking models to multistage search systems

“…For example, Ellis' behavioral model consists of information seeking patterns, that are "not meant to indicate a fixed sequence of events," but which interact in various ways [17], while Kuhlthau's process model uses a more sequential approach, consisting of search stages. In this paper, we have chosen to focus on the latter, temporally-based model [7], so we use Kuhlthau's Information Search Process model and Vakkari's adaptation of this model [60] as our framework.…”

Reducing Affective Responses to Surgical Images and Videos Through Stylization

“…are used for everyday life research [HE09] and, in particular, health information [CWS*17, GKN*05, KH18, RMSS15, SWR08, Yan10]. A young audience often uses them to inform themselves [FCBS18, SBPG03, GKN*05, SWR08] or work on school projects [BCAL15, She18]—yet they can contain graphic or inappropriate content [LSG*18, LKPS14, Wik03, Wik10b]. Interestingly, social media sites (e.g.…”

The end game inKuhlthau'sISP Model: Knowledge construction for grade 8 students researching an inquiry‐based history project

“… Variance in the action “discuss with parents” and the two statistically significant feelings variables (week 6 to 7 compared to week 7 to 8), from B eheshti et al. (). …”

“…The originality of the ISP model is that it divides the student's construction of the school assignment into six stages, thus linking the student's information need and consequent information seeking and use to the concept of temporality (Beheshti, Cole, Abuhimed, & Lamoureux, ). In this temporal approach, the student feels, thinks, and seeks information differently depending on the stage of his ISP.…”