Preliminary Results: Why First-Year College Students Select Online Research Resources as Their Favorite
Here’s info about one of several articles found in the just released issue of First Monday (Vol. 17, No. 9; September 2012) that we think will be of interest.
Title
Why First-Year College Students Select Online Research Resources as Their Favorite
Author
James P. Purdy
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Source
First Monday (Vol. 17. No. 9)
Abstract
This paper reports results of a preliminary study on why first–year college students select certain online research resources as their favorite. Results, based on a survey of over 500 U.S. college students in first–year writing classes, offer a more complex picture of student motivation than popular accounts of these students as disinterested, lazy, and ignorant. Students reported most frequently that they favored resources for reasons of ease, quality, and connectivity. They reported least frequently that they favored resources for reasons of relevance, variety, and speed. These results suggest that students value finding scholarly sources above relevant sources.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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