Situational relevance and task outcome

Authors:
Saila Huuskonen;Pertti Vakkari
Affiliations:
University of Tampere, Finland;University of Tampere, Finland
Venue:
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
Year:
2006

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Abstract

It is explored how precision and relative recall and items retrieved and assessed as useful by medical students for writing course work are associated with the degree to which these items were cited in the work and how they were used, as assessed by teachers. The main finding was that precision and relative recall were not associated with most of the indicators measuring the quality of the course work. The implications of this finding are discussed concerning outcome oriented evaluation of IR.