Smoothing the information seeking path: Removing representational obstacles in the middle-school digital library.
Description:
Middle school student's interaction within a digital library is explored. Issues of interface features used, obstacles encountered, search strategies and search techniques used, and representation obstacles are examined. A mechanism for evaluating user's descriptors is tested and effects of augmenting the system's resource descriptions with these descriptors on retrieval is explored. Transaction log data analysis (TLA) was used, with external corroborating achievement data provided by teachers.…
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Date:
May 2002
Creator:
Abbas, June M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries