Middle school children's use of the ARTEMIS digital library

Authors:
June Abbas;Cathleen Norris;Elliott Soloway
Affiliations:
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;University of North Texas, Denton, TX;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2002

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Abstract

A case study of middle school student's interaction within a digital library, the differential use of interface features by students, and the issues of representation and retrieval obstacles are examined. A mechanism for evaluating user's search terms and questions is explained. Findings of a current case study indicate that student's interaction with the system varied between individual classes and between different achievement levels. Terms used by the system to represent the resources do not adequately represent the user groups' information needs.