Judgement of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Domain-specific search strategies for the effective retrieval of healthcare and shopping information
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Using Multivariate Statistics (5th Edition)
Using Multivariate Statistics (5th Edition)
What are you looking for?: an eye-tracking study of information usage in web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Computers in Human Behavior
Effects of the metacognitive computer-tool met.a.ware on the web search of laypersons
Computers in Human Behavior
Eye movements as implicit relevance feedback
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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
A five-year study of on-campus Internet use by undergraduate biomedical students
Computers & Education
Predicting users' domain knowledge from search behaviors
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Dealing with conflicting information from multiple nonlinear texts: Effects of prior attitudes
Computers in Human Behavior
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This study investigated the predictive value of epistemic beliefs about knowledge and knowing on the Web for source evaluations and post-search decisions when university students (n=79) searched the Web to make an informed decision about a conflicting and unfamiliar medical issue. Epistemic beliefs were assessed with the Internet-Specific Epistemological Questionnaire (ISEQ) and processing of source information was measured through eye tracking, log files, and verbal protocols. Furthermore, Web users' post-search decisions and their basis for those decisions were assessed. Results from multiple regression analyses indicated that beliefs in the Web as a reliable resource of accurate knowledge and detailed facts were related to decreased verbal reflection on the credibility and type of sources and decreased attention to the URLs of the search results, as well as a greater certainty in the post-search decision. In addition, doubts about the need to check knowledge claims on the Web against other sources, reason, and prior knowledge were related to a more one-sided representation of the conflicting issue. In conclusion, the findings suggested that Internet-specific certainty, source, and structure beliefs primarily play a role in source evaluation, while Internet-specific beliefs about the justification for knowing primarily play a role in constructing a complete representation of document contents.