User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
The role of attorney mental models of law in case relevance determinations: an exploratory analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. document selection
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
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
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User relevance criteria choices and the information search process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
How is a search system used in work task completion?
Journal of Information Science
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This small-scale empirical study focuses on students' anticipated and assessed contribution of references retrieved during the preparation of research proposals. It explores how the expected contribution of types of information before searches differs from the assessed contribution of relevant references found by the types of information. Twenty-two psychology undergraduates searched the PsychINFO database for references at the initial and end stages of a seminar for preparing proposals. Data about their subject knowledge, search goals, and utility assessments were collected using several methods. They were asked to predict and assess the utility of information types provided by relevant references for the proposals. At the beginning of the process, they found fewer general types of information and more specific types of information than they expected. However, the students tended to accept references according to their expectations. By the end of the process, the expected importance of general information types declined and the importance of specific information types increased. At the end of the task, students became more proficient at recognizing the utility and topicality of references. They also became more critical in accepting found information to match their expectations.