Utilizing content moderators to investigate critical factors for assessing the quality of answers on brainly, social learning Q&A platform for students: A pilot study

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Choi, Erik ^a   Borkowski, Michal ^a   Zakoian, Julien ^a   Sagan, Katie ^a   Scholla, Kent ^a   Ponti, Crystal ^a   Labedz, Michal ^a   Bielski, Maciek ^a  

^a Brainly Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational Information; Human Assessments; Information Quality; Information Seeking Behavior; Social Q A

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING; CRITICAL FACTORS; DATA FINDING; EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION; HUMAN ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; PILOT STUDIES; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL Q&A;

MODERATORS;

EID: 84987700966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010069     Document Type: Article

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