Markov models of search state patterns in a hypertext information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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
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
Cognitive style and on-line database search experience as predictors of web search performance
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Cognitive and task influences on Web searching behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as web users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
What's new on the web?: the evolution of the web from a search engine perspective
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
The indexable web is more than 11.5 billion pages
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Thinking style, browsing primes and hypermedia navigation
Computers & Education
A novel approach for assisting teachers in analyzing student web-searching behaviors
Computers & Education
IEEE Transactions on Education
A descriptive model of information problem solving while using internet
Computers & Education
The role of tasks and epistemological beliefs in online peer questioning
Computers & Education
Conference Internationale Francophone sur I'Interaction Homme-Machine
Students' views of collaboration and online participation in Knowledge Forum
Computers & Education
23rd French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Scaffolding strategies for supporting middle school students' online inquiry processes
Computers & Education
Improving Information Problem Solving skills in Secondary Education through embedded instruction
Computers in Human Behavior
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This study reported an investigation of eighth graders' (14-year-olds) web searching strategies and outcomes, and then analyzed their correlations with students' web experiences, epistemological beliefs, and the nature of searching tasks. Eighty-seven eighth graders were asked to fill out a questionnaire for probing epistemological beliefs (from positivist to constructivist-oriented views) and finished three different types of searching tasks. Their searching process was recorded by screen capture software and answers were reviewed by two expert teachers based on their accuracy, richness and soundness. Five quantitative indicators were used to assess students' searching strategies: number of keywords, visited pages, maximum depth of exploration, refinement of keyword, and number of words used in the first keyword. The main findings derived from this study suggested that, students with richer web experiences could find more correct answers in ''close-ended'' search tasks. In addition, students with better metacognitive skills such as keyword refinement tended to achieve more successful searching outcomes in such tasks. However, in ''open-ended'' tasks, where questions were less certain and answers were more elaborated, students who had more advanced epistemological beliefs, concurring with a constructivist view, had better searching outcomes in terms of their soundness and richness. This study has concluded that epistemological beliefs play an influential role in open-ended Internet learning environments.