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
Information problem solving by experts and novices: analysis of a complex cognitive skill
Computers in Human Behavior
A descriptive model of information problem solving while using internet
Computers & Education
Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications
Trust in wikipedia: how users trust information from an unknown source
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Information credibility
Fostering transfer of websearchers' evaluation skills: A field test of two transfer theories
Computers in Human Behavior
Students' attitudes towards web searching
ICHL'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Hybrid learning
A Specialized Search Assistant for Learning Objects
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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
Scaffolding information problem solving in web-based collaborative inquiry learning
Computers & Education
Students' evaluation of websites in hybrid language learning
ICHL'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Hybrid Learning and Education
The influence of source cues and topic familiarity on credibility evaluation
Computers in Human Behavior
Understanding trust formation in digital information sources: The case of Wikipedia
Journal of Information Science
Searching the Web for conflicting topics: Page and user factors
Computers in Human Behavior
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The World Wide Web (WWW) has become the biggest information source for students while solving information problems for school projects. Since anyone can post anything on the WWW, information is often unreliable or incomplete, and it is important to evaluate sources and information before using them. Earlier research has shown that students have difficulties with evaluating sources and information. This study investigates the criteria secondary educational students use while searching the Web for information. 23 students solved two information problems while thinking aloud. After completing the tasks they were interviewed in groups on their use of criteria. Results show that students do not evaluate results, source and information very often. The criteria students mention when asked which criteria are important for evaluating information are not always the same criteria they mention while solving the information problems. They mentioned more criteria but also admitted not always using these criteria while searching the Web.