Using the taxonomy of cognitive learning to model online searching

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 643-663

  Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Booth, Danielle ^a   Smith, Brian ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloom's taxonomy; Information searching; To Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy; Web searching

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; BLOOM'S TAXONOMY; COGNITIVE LEARNING; HIGHER-LEVEL INFORMATION; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SEARCHING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING LEVELS; LEARNING PROCESS; LEARNING STYLE; LEARNING THEORY; MODERATING EFFECT; RESEARCH RESULTS; SEARCHING SYSTEMS; SEARCHING TASK; SIMPLE INFORMATIONS; TO ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL'S TAXONOMY; WEB SEARCHER; WEB SEARCHING;

BLOOMS (METAL); DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; RESEARCH; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TAXONOMIES; WEB SERVICES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 69249209678     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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