Where should the person stop and the information search interface start?
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Thinking (vol. 3): an invitation to cognitive science
Thinking (vol. 3): an invitation to cognitive science
Cognitive process as a basis for intelligent retrieval systems design
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Consistency in the selection of search concepts and search terms
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Why are online catalogs still hard to use?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Some perspectives on the evaluation of information retrieval systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
Information science: a third feedback framework
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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In this paper, it is suggested that a number of theoretical and practical perspectives on information literacy can be obtained through the examination of tenets of cognitive psychology. One aspect of cognitive psychology-- information processing theory-is applied to the development of a two-stage model of the information retrieval process. This model of information retrieval has utility along two dimensions: firstly, in the conceptualization of the information retrieval process; and secondly, in the development of teaching strategies informed by such a model. The efficacy of this model was tested in a large two-phase experimental study at the University of Canberra, Australia. Statistically significant results support the effectiveness of the concept-based teaching of information retrieval and the utility of the model as an explanation of the cognitive underpinnings of information retrieval.