The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The influence of mental models on undergraduate students' searching behavior on the Web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Teaching and learning in information retrieval
Information Retrieval
Mental models: have users' mental models of web search engines improved in the last ten years?
EPCE'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics
The impact of task complexity on people's mental models of MedlinePlus
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information retrieval educational goals in library and information science and in health sciences
Information Services and Use - 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing --ELPUB 2012 --Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and Technology
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To investigate the nature of people's understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to "draw a labeled sketch of how search engines work." A reference model was constructed and each sketch was analyzed and compared against it for completeness. The paper presents preliminary results and discusses the implications for educational assessment and curriculum design on the one hand, and information system design on the other.