Problem solving and cognitive skill acquisition
Foundations of cognitive science
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Sorting out searching: a user-interface framework for text searches
Communications of the ACM
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Beyond logs and surveys: in-depth measures of people's web use skills
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information-problem solving: A review of problems students encounter and instructional solutions
Computers in Human Behavior
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
Intention and task context connected with session in a cultural heritage collection
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
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This paper describes the development and empirical evaluation of a web training for pupils (CIS-WEB, Competent Information Search in the World Wide WEB) which aims to convey prerequisite knowledge and skills that are necessary for a competent search for information on the web. The web training focuses on competent information handling and is based on two theoretical analyses. First, a conceptual analysis of information search from the perspective of media literacy research and information retrieval research was conducted and yielded a set of five pivotal content aspects that need to be covered by a web training. Each of these content aspects is characterized by declarative and procedural knowledge components which are necessary for the pursuit of a competent search for information on the web. Second, we conducted a task analysis which conceptualizes the search for information on the web as a problem-solving process and which allows to systematically distinguish between different types of information problems. In the empirical part of the paper two classroom studies are reported. In Study 1, the widespread training concept of a technically oriented Internet training for pupils was evaluated and it was shown that no substantial improvement of web searching skills can be expected from this type of treatment. In Study 2, it was shown that the web training CIS-WEB improves pupils' declarative knowledge of the web as well as their search performance, thereby outperforming the conventional Internet training used in Study 1.