Framing of different types of information needs within simulated work task situations: An empirical study in the school context
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Framing of different types of information needs within simulated work task situations : An empirical study in the school context. / Borlund, Pia.
In: Journal of Information Science, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2016, p. 313-323.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Framing of different types of information needs within simulated work task situations
T2 - An empirical study in the school context
AU - Borlund, Pia
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper reports a meta-evaluation of how to frame different types of information needs within simulated work task situations. This is done via an empirical study of teenagers and their teachers’ Internet information searching. Two sets of simulated work task situations were carefully designed to reflect verificative, conscious topical and muddled topical information needs of each group of test participants. The study shows that it is challenging to formulate verificative simulated work task situations and to incorporate curiosity inthe muddled topical simulated work task situations. The results also show that the search behaviour of the two groups differs across the information needs, as expected, but also between the two groups, owing to the search strategy and attitude of the teenagers. This is seen by how fast they were at searching and assessing relevance, often using Google’s ‘picture search function’, and saving the readingin detail for later.
AB - This paper reports a meta-evaluation of how to frame different types of information needs within simulated work task situations. This is done via an empirical study of teenagers and their teachers’ Internet information searching. Two sets of simulated work task situations were carefully designed to reflect verificative, conscious topical and muddled topical information needs of each group of test participants. The study shows that it is challenging to formulate verificative simulated work task situations and to incorporate curiosity inthe muddled topical simulated work task situations. The results also show that the search behaviour of the two groups differs across the information needs, as expected, but also between the two groups, owing to the search strategy and attitude of the teenagers. This is seen by how fast they were at searching and assessing relevance, often using Google’s ‘picture search function’, and saving the readingin detail for later.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - IIR evaluation study
KW - information needs
KW - meta-evaluation; simulated work task situations
U2 - 10.1177/0165551515625028
DO - 10.1177/0165551515625028
M3 - Journal article
VL - 42
SP - 313
EP - 323
JO - Journal of Information Science
JF - Journal of Information Science
SN - 0165-5515
IS - 3
ER -
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