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Measuring spontaneous and instructed evaluation processes during Web search: Integrating concurrent thinking-aloud protocols and eye-tracking data

Peter Gerjets, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2011 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 220-231
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Instructed evaluation resulted in more verbal utterances of quality-related evaluation criteria, in an increased attention focus on user ratings displayed on Web pages, and in better quality of decision making, although participants in the Instructed Evaluation condition were not able to better justify their decision as compared to Participants in the Spontaneous Evaluation condition.
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This article is published in Learning and Instruction.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 161 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eye tracking & Think aloud protocol.

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Comprehending and Learning From Internet Sources: Processing Patterns of Better and Poorer Learners

TL;DR: The authors found that better learners engaged in more sense-making, self-explanation, and comprehension-monitoring processes on reliable sites as compared with unreliable sites, and did so by a larger margin than did poorer learners.
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Procrastination and self-efficacy: Tracing vicious and virtuous circles in self-regulated learning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how students react to self-assessed low goal achievement in self-regulated learning and found that students with low perceived selfefficacy are vulnerable for finding themselves in a vicious circle of procrastination.
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Spontaneous Sourcing among Students Reading Multiple Documents.

TL;DR: This study used think-aloud methodology to explore undergraduates' spontaneous attention to and use of source information while reading six documents that presented conflicting views on a controversial social scientific issue in a Google-like environment and observed that students' spontaneous sourcing activity was related to their citation of a particularly trustworthy source.
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The role of Internet-specific epistemic beliefs in laypersons' source evaluations and decisions during Web search on a medical issue

TL;DR: Investigating the predictive value of epistemic beliefs about knowledge and knowing on the Web for source evaluations and post-search decisions when university students searched the Web to make an informed decision about a conflicting and unfamiliar medical issue suggested that Internet-specific certainty, source, and structure beliefs primarily play a role in source evaluation.
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Youth and digital media: from credibility to information quality

TL;DR: A review of selected literature at the intersection of digital media, youth, and information quality reveals patterns in youth's information-seeking behavior, but also highlights the importance of contextual and demographic factors both for search and evaluation.
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