Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Relevance and contributing information types of searched documents in task performance
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Beyond the search process - Exploring group members' information behavior in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
The role of subjective factors in the information search process
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
The emotional impact of search tasks
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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This two-part study investigates the effect of a 30-minutepresentation of Carol Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP)model on students' perceptions of research and research paperanxiety. An experiment was designed to collect both quantitativeand qualitative data during a semester. An upper divisionundergraduate course, Technical and Professional Writing, with foursections participated in the experiment in fall 1999. A surveyinstrument, the Research Process Survey (RPS), was developed tocollect data about students' feelings and thoughts at the onset oftheir course research project (pretest) and at the completion ofthe project (posttest). A standard anxiety test (STAI Y-1) wasadopted to measure anxiety levels during pretest and posttestsessions and at two additional points between. Two of the foursections heard a guest presentation of the ISP model as treatmentafter the pretest; the other two sections heard a different guestspeak about career experiences as a technical writer (a placebotalk). The results of this experiment are reported in two articlesaccording to the nature of the collected data. This article reportson results of the quantitative analysis. Four hypotheses wereproposed to examine the effects on awareness of cognitive aspects,awareness of affective aspects, level of anxiety, and satisfactionwith research. One hypothesis was supported. A significant changein anxiety levels was measured (p = 0.5). Althoughstatistical tests did not reject three null hypotheses, positivetrends in change as a result of the ISP model were identified. Asecond article reports on results of qualitative analysis of thetexts that participants wrote about a memorable past researchexperience and about the current research experience.