Online information retrieval: concepts, principles, and techniques
Online information retrieval: concepts, principles, and techniques
A re-examination of relevance: toward a dynamic, situational definition
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Where should the person stop and the information search interface start?
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
SIGIR '90 Proceedings of the 13th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Orienteering in an information landscape: how information seekers get from here to there
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards the use of situational information in information retrieval
Journal of Documentation
The role of task analysis in systems design
Interacting with Computers
The role of attorney mental models of law in case relevance determinations: an exploratory analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
Operationalizing the notion of information as a subjective construct
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The dilemma of measurement in information retrieval research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
Variations in relevance assessments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
A task-oriented approach to information retrieval evaluation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Cognitive models of directional inference in expert medical reasoning
Expertise in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Relevance and contributing information types of searched documents in task performance
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Information and information seeking of novice versus expert lawyers: how experts add value
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Form and function: the impact of query term and operator usage on Web search results
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Improving the retrieval effectiveness of very short queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
A Task-Oriented Non-Interactive Evaluation Methodologyfor Information Retrieval Systems
Information Retrieval
Using the user's mental model to guide the integration of information space into information need
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of performance variation using query expansion
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Do nondomain experts enlist the strategies of domain experts?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
A task-based information retrieval interface to support bioinformatics analysis
Proceedings of the second international symposium on Information interaction in context
Teaching and learning in information retrieval
Information Retrieval
Understanding help seeking within the context of searching digital libraries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Directing exploratory search: reinforcement learning from user interactions with keywords
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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When domain novices are in C.C. Kuhlthau's (1993) Stage 3, the exploration stage of researching an assignment, they often do not know their information need; this causes them to go back to Stage 2, the topic-selection stage, when they are selecting keywords to formulate their query to an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Our hypothesis is that instead of going backward, they should be going forward toward a goal state--the performance of the task for which they are seeking the information. If they can somehow construct their goal state into a query, this forward-looking query better operationalizes their information need than does a topic-based query. For domain novice undergraduates seeking information for a course essay, we define their task as selecting a high-impact essay structure which will put the student's learning on display for the course instructor who will evaluate the essay. We report a study of first-year history undergraduate students which tested the use and effectiveness of "essay type" as a task-focused query-formulation device. We randomly assigned 78 history undergraduates to an intervention group and a control group. The dependent variable was essay quality, based on (a) an evaluation of the student's essay by a research team member, and (b) the marks given to the student's essay by the course instructor. We found that conscious or formal consideration of essay type is inconclusive as a basis of a task-focused query-formulation device for IR.