期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2005
卷号：2
页码：355-355
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：Information literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of
sources in appropriate contexts to construct knowledge. In the current digital age, information
literacy has inevitably been influenced extensively by developments in technology with the emergence
of digital information literacy. The Internet has become a prominent source of digital information
and students need to be competent and critical users of the information hosted by the
Internet. This paper describes the baseline findings of the digital curricular literacy research project
undertaken by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice in Singapore. Seven Secondary
schools in Singapore participated in this preliminary study. Student participants were
grouped together in pairs to be collaboratively engaged in Internet information seeking tasks. The
student pairs were assigned History-based and Science-based tasks and their online movements
were captured using a screen capture software, Snapzpro. The findings of this study have been
analyzed and will be presented in this paper based upon Ellis¡¯ information seeking behaviors
model. Patterns and characteristics of students¡¯ information seeking processes were investigated
according to the different stages of Ellis¡¯ model. Our findings revealed that the majority of Singapore
students primarily focused on the following phases of Ellis¡¯ model: starting, browsing,
chaining, differentiating and extracting. We have observed two levels of starting, differentiating
and extracting which we would like to term as primary and secondary in this study. No significant
trends were observed in relation to the monitoring component in his model.
关键词：Digital Information Literacy, Information Synthesis, Knowledge Construction, Information
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