Undergraduate research behavior: Using focus groups to generate theory

Valentine, Barbara

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“…9 Even before the widespread adoption of the Web, Barbara Valentine noted that students tend to look for the quickest and easiest way to complete an assignment. 10 The Web likely reinforces this tendency. A new disincentive to learning is the fact that many searchers believe they are already proficient information seekers.…”

Section: General Findings and Observationsmentioning

confidence: 95%

I Don’t Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age

Novotny

2004

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A protocol analysis study was undertaken to explore how a Web-savvy generation of library users searches the online catalog. Eighteen users, including experienced and novice searchers, were recruited. Participants agreed to be recorded and to express their thoughts aloud while searching. Analysis of these data has revealed several distinct trends. Most notable among these trends has been the impact of Internet search engines on user expectations. Given the influence of the Web, these assumptions are likely common throughout higher education.This research reveals where bottlenecks occur and provides insights into how libraries can design systems that help users around trouble spots.nline public access catalogs (OPACs) were the subject of intense study in the 1980s and 1990s, but interest in these basic library tools tapered off as libraries added other online resources.

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Section: General Findings and Observationsmentioning

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I Don’t Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age

Novotny

2004

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“…Existen un buen número de aproximaciones empíricas al campo de las estrategias de documentación académica por parte del alumnado universitario (Becker, 2003;Calva, 1999;Case, 2006;Chowdhury y Chowdhury, 1999;Cole, 1997 Kerins y otros, 2004;Liu y Yang, 2004;Valentine, 1993;Zhang y otros, 2005). De las que se centran en el análisis de la utilización de las bibliotecas como fuentes de documentación destacan las aportaciones de: Bancroft y otros (1998), quienes midieron el uso de la biblioteca de la Universidad de Washington por parte del alumnado de dicha institución; Hiller y Self (2002), que analizaron la frecuencia de utilización de las bibliotecas de las Universidades de Washington y Virginia entre los años 1998 y 2001; Hayden y colaboradores (2005), quienes describieron la frecuencia de uso por parte de los alumnos de los servicios bibliotecarios del Instituto Tecnológico de Waterford; Rey (1999), que describió el uso de las bibliotecas universitarias catalanas en el periodo comprendido entre 1995 y 1997; Perea (2002), que analizó el perfi l del usuario del servicio de bibliotecas de la Universidad de A Coruña; Arias y Simón (2008), que estudiaron, mediante encuestación, los hábitos de uso de las bibliotecas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.…”

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La búsqueda de información con fines académicos entre el alumnado universitario

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Resumen: En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre la autovaloración de los conocimientos y habilidades del alumnado pregraduado de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB) para la búsqueda de información con fi nes académicos. También se describen diversos aspectos sobre la utilización de algunos servicios bibliotecarios así como de Internet. El estudio se basó en la aplicación de un cuestionario a un total de 1.025 universitarios seleccionados aleatoriamente. De los resultados alcanzados se desprende que el alumnado universitario se considera, por norma general, competente en el manejo de Internet para documentarse con fi nes académicos, pero no en el uso de las bibliotecas. Lógicamente, la frecuencia de uso de Internet también es muy superior a la de los otros recursos de búsqueda de información académica. Cabe plantear, en este sentido, la necesidad de mejorar las competencias y estrategias de documentación del alumnado basadas en el uso de las bibliotecas, recurso que no excluye el empleo de Internet, pero que a buen seguro puede mejorar la búsqueda documental en aspectos como el rigor, la fi abilidad y la potencialidad de cubrir mucho mejor las necesidades informacionales del alumnado.Palabras clave: competencias académicas, alfabetización informacional, estrategias de búsqueda documental. Strategies used by university students in searching for information for academic purposes

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“…1 Valentine's research revealed that students tend to avoid resources they are unfamiliar with or believe are difficult to use, returning to tools they have used successfully in the past.…”

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Caught in the Web: The Impact of Library Instruction on Business Students’ Perceptions and Use of Print and Online Resources

Lombardo

Miree

2003

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Many business students rely heavily on the Web for research, in part because of their unfamiliarity with the breadth of their library's business resources (online and in print). This study sought to determine whether library instruction could impact undergraduate business students' atti tudes and use of three information formats: print materials, library data bases, and Web resources. Over the course of a semester, pre-/ postinstruction questionnaires were collected from ninety students en rolled in a business capstone course. Results indicate that after library instruction, students held more favorable attitudes toward print resources and used them in their research more than they had initially expected. n today's fast-paced world, the students to the full array of research tools desire for expediency has at their disposal. Past research has dem prompted undergraduate stuonstrated that library instruction can in dents to place a premium on fluence students' general attitudes toward information that can be found quickly and easily. To this end, many students limit their research to electronic resources, choosing format over substance and con venience over accuracy. In particular, re liance on the World Wide Web as a pri mary-and often sole-research tool has impacted the quality and rigor of student projects and reduced students' familiar ity with more traditional print resources and bibliographic databases in their university's library collection. Given this trend, more than ever it is imperative that librarians, in collaboration with academic faculty, take a central role in introducing the library and its resources; more work must be done, however, to measure the impact of library instruction on students' perceptions of specific information for mats. Equally important, librarians must fully examine how library instruction impacts students' use of these resources.The current study was designed to measure business students' initial percep tions and use of three information for mats: the Web, online bibliographic and full-text databases, and print reference resources. Further, the authors wanted to explore the impact of library instruction on students' attitudes about and use of

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Undergraduate research behavior: Using focus groups to generate theory

Cited by 77 publications

References 4 publications

I Don’t Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age

I Don’t Think I Click: A Protocol Analysis Study of Use of a Library Online Catalog in the Internet Age

La búsqueda de información con fines académicos entre el alumnado universitario

Caught in the Web: The Impact of Library Instruction on Business Students’ Perceptions and Use of Print and Online Resources

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