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Undergraduate Students’Evaluation Criteria When Using Web Resources for Class Papers
- Source :
- Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, Vol 42, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2004)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Tamkang University Press, 2004.
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Abstract
- The growth in popularity of the World Wide Web has dramatically changed the way undergraduate students conduct information searches. The purpose of this study is to investigate what core quality criteria undergraduate students use to evaluate Web resources for their class papers and to what extent they evaluate the Web resources. This study reports on five Web page evaluations and a questionnaire survey of thirty five undergraduate students in the Information Technology and Informatics Program at Rutgers University. Results show that undergraduate students have become increasingly sophisticated about using Web resources, but not yet sophisticated about searching them. Undergraduate students only used one or two surface quality criteria to evaluate Web resources. They made immediate judgments about the surface features of Web pages and ignored the content of the documents themselves. This research suggests that undergraduate instructors should take the responsibility for instructing students on basic Web use knowledge or work with librarians to develop undergraduate students information literacy skills.
Details
- Language :
- English, Chinese
- ISSN :
- 1013090X and 50498282
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9bee31682c50498282d0905dd88c21a1
- Document Type :
- article