Designing the user interface (2nd ed.): strategies for effective human-computer interaction
Designing the user interface (2nd ed.): strategies for effective human-computer interaction
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
Teaching and learning in information retrieval
Information Retrieval
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Using a concept map to evaluate exploratory search
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Design experiment on two information retrieval learning environments
TLIR'07 Proceedings of the First international conference on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
Integrating standard test collections in interactive IR instruction
TLIR'07 Proceedings of the First international conference on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
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In order to design information retrieval (IR) learning environments and instruction, it is important to explore learning outcomes of different pedagogical solutions. Learning outcomes have seldom been evaluated in IR instruction. The particular focus of this study is the assessment of learning outcomes in an experimental, but naturalistic, learning environment compared to more traditional instruction. The 57 participants of an introductory course on IR were selected for this study, and the analysis illustrates their learning outcomes regarding both conceptual change and development of IR skill. Concept mapping of student essays was used to analyze conceptual change and log-files of search exercises provided data for performance assessment. Students in the experimental learning environment changed their conceptions more regarding linguistic aspects of IR and paid more emphasis on planning and management of search process. Performance assessment indicates that anchored instruction and scaffolding with an instructional tool, the IR Game, with performance feedback enables students to construct queries with fewer semantic knowledge errors also in operational IR systems.