The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill
The Nurnberg funnel: designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill
The minimal manual: is less really more?
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Differences between novice and experienced users in searching information on the World Wide Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Principles for Designing Web Searching Instruction
Education and Information Technologies
Information-problem solving: A review of problems students encounter and instructional solutions
Computers in Human Behavior
Exploratory inspection—a user-based learning method for improving open source software usability
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
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
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This study examined the efficacy of minimalist instruction to develop self-regulatory skills involved in Web searching. Two versions of minimalist self-regulatory skill instruction were compared to a control group that was merely taught procedural skills to operate the search engine. Acquired skills were tested on Web search tasks and search tasks in an online library catalogue. Self-regulatory skill instruction was found to increase practice time by 25%. However, it did not enhance search performance on the test tasks. Explanations are advanced for these findings and topics for further research are identified.