Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Children's Internet searching on complex problems: performance and process analyses
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on user-centered cooperative systems
A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Children's relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The Web as a classroom resource: reactions from the users
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Minimalist Instruction for Learning to Search the World Wide Web
Education and Information Technologies
Principles for Designing Web Searching Instruction
Education and Information Technologies
Supporting reflective web searching in elementary schools
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Effects of the metacognitive computer-tool met.a.ware on the web search of laypersons
Computers in Human Behavior
The effect of embedded instruction on solving information problems
Computers in Human Behavior
Information problem solving by experts and novices: analysis of a complex cognitive skill
Computers in Human Behavior
The effect of embedded instruction on solving information problems
Computers in Human Behavior
Information literacy skills: Teacher understandings and practice
Computers & Education
Learning with new technologies: Help seeking and information searching revisited
Computers & Education
A descriptive model of information problem solving while using internet
Computers & Education
Fostering transfer of websearchers' evaluation skills: A field test of two transfer theories
Computers in Human Behavior
Improving Information Problem Solving skills in Secondary Education through embedded instruction
Computers in Human Behavior
Youth searching online: an investigation of gender influence
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Information and strategic Internet skills of secondary students: A performance test
Computers & Education
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Searching and processing information is a complex cognitive process that requires students to identify information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources. This process is called information-problem solving (IPS). IPS can be characterized as a complex cognitive skill, which may need direct instruction to reach high levels of performance. However, IPS has been given little attention in schools, and instruction in this skill is rarely embedded in curricula. And yet, by giving students assignments in which students have to solve an information-based problem, teachers assume that their pupils have developed this skill naturally. A literature study was done to determine what kinds of problems students experience when solving information problems using the WWW for searching information, and what kind of instructional support can help to solve these problems. Results show that children, teenagers and adults have trouble with specifying search terms, judging search results and judging source and information. Regulating the search process is also problematic. Instruction designed specifically for IPS using the WWW for searching information is rare but indeed addresses the problematic skills. However, there are differences between various methods and it is unclear which method is most effective for specific age groups.