Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
Children's Internet searching on complex problems: performance and process analyses
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on user-centered cooperative systems
“If you don't have it, you can't find it”: a close look at students' perceptions in using technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Children's relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The Web as a classroom resource: reactions from the users
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Bounded rationality and satisficing in young people's Web-based decision making
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Youth searching online: an investigation of gender influence
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
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This study details the activities and strategies that 11th grade students with high academic abilities used during their information seeking and use to complete class projects in a Persuasive Speech class. The study took place in a suburban high school in Maryland, and participants included 21 junior honors students, their teacher, and their library media specialist. Each student produced a 5–7-minute speech on a self-chosen topic. Conducted in the framework of qualitative research in a constructivist paradigm (E.G. Guba, & Y.S. Lincoln, 1998), the study used data collected from observations, individual interviews, and documents students produced for their projects—concept maps, paragraphs, outlines, and research journals. Interview and observation data were analyzed using the constant comparative method (B. Glaser & A. Strauss, 1967) with the help of QSR NVivo 2 (QSR International Pty Ltd, 2002); students' documents were analyzed manually. The findings show that students' understanding, strategies, and activities during information seeking and use were interactive and serendipitous and that students learned about their topics as they searched. The research suggests that high school honors students in an information-rich environment are especially confident with learning tasks requiring an exploratory mode of learning. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.