Investigating the anomalous states of knowledge hypothesis in a real-life problem situation: A study of history and psychology undergraduates seeking information for a course essay

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1544-1554

  Cole, Charles ^a   Leide, John ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Large, Andrew ^a   Brooks, Martin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COURSE ESSAYS; STRUCTURAL CODES; STRUCTURAL FACETS; VAGUE CONCEPTIONS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 30544442810     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20248     Document Type: Article

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