Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
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
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
Teaching students to evaluate source reliability during internet research tasks
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
Instructional support for enhancing students' information problem solving ability
Computers in Human Behavior
Information-problem solving: A review of problems students encounter and instructional solutions
Computers in Human Behavior
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 literacy skills: Teacher understandings and practice
Computers & Education
A descriptive model of information problem solving while using internet
Computers & Education
Information problem solving by experts and novices: analysis of a complex cognitive skill
Computers in Human Behavior
Fostering transfer of websearchers' evaluation skills: A field test of two transfer theories
Computers in Human Behavior
Designing roles, scripts, and prompts to support CSCL in gStudy
Computers in Human Behavior
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This empirical study consists in an investigation of the effects, on the development of Information Problem Solving (IPS) skills, of a long-term embedded, structured and supported instruction in Secondary Education. Forty secondary students of 7th and 8th grades (13-15years old) participated in the 2-year IPS instruction designed in this study. Twenty of them participated in the IPS instruction, and the remaining twenty were the control group. All the students were pre- and post-tested in their regular classrooms, and their IPS process and performance were logged by means of screen capture software, to warrant their ecological validity. The IPS constituent skills, the web search sub-skills and the answers given by each participant were analyzed. The main findings of our study suggested that experimental students showed a more expert pattern than the control students regarding the constituent skill 'defining the problem' and the following two web search sub-skills: 'search terms' typed in a search engine, and 'selected results' from a SERP. In addition, scores of task performance were statistically better in experimental students than in control group students. The paper contributes to the discussion of how well-designed and well-embedded scaffolds could be designed in instructional programs in order to guarantee the development and efficiency of the students' IPS skills by using net information better and participating fully in the global knowledge society.