合作式資訊搜尋對於學生個人網路搜尋能力與策略之影響

The Influences of Collaborative Information Seeking on Students’ Internet Search Ability and Strategy

黃貞元(Jen-yuan Huang)

指導教授 ： 楊鎮華

國立中央大學/資訊電機學院/資訊工程學系/碩士(2011年)

摘要

近年來在網路上的資訊搜尋與閱讀已成為學生們除了課堂上以外非常重要的學習方式，然而學者們也發現了儘管大部分學生可能對自身在網路使用上的能力充滿自信，但多數學生卻普遍缺乏了足夠的網路資訊搜尋技巧和評價網路資料能力，所以有學者紛紛提出以合作式資訊搜尋的方式來輔助學生在這方面的不足。但先前學者們對於合作式資訊搜尋的相關研究，大多數將焦點集中於輔助系統的改良與提升學生們當下合作資訊搜尋與問題任務解決的成效上。鮮少有研究深入觀察在合作式資訊搜尋活動過程中，是否可以藉由同儕間彼此的搜尋行為觀察、小組討論與資訊分享，來正面影響學生個人網路資訊搜尋時的能力與流程策略。所以本論文提出了兩個主要的研究問題，分別是「學生們進行完合作式資訊搜尋活動後，對於學生的個人網路資訊搜尋能力有何正面影響？」與「學生們進行完合作式資訊搜尋活動後，對於學生的個人網路資訊搜尋流程策略有何正面影響與改變？」。而我們在實驗結果中發現，經過合作式資訊搜尋活動後，學生未來在進行個人資訊搜尋時，從一開始對網路搜尋引擎下達關鍵字的準確度與適當性，到點選搜尋引擎所呈顯的搜尋結果連結或網頁連結的判斷，以及最後找到有符合所需資訊需求的正確網頁時可以順利閱讀出所需資訊的能力，各方面都有明顯地提升。而學生們的搜尋流程策略也因為搜尋技巧提升的影響，可以在進行個人網路資訊搜尋時可以更加專注於閱讀、了解、整理並呈現相關資訊，而非像先前研究者所發現的將時間浪費在較無學習效果的搜尋資訊與瀏覽資訊上。

關鍵字

合作式資訊搜尋 ； 網路搜尋 ； 資訊搜尋能力 ； 資訊搜尋策略

並列摘要

In recent years, seeking and reading information on the internet has become a very important way of learning besides the traditional learning on the classroom for students. However, the researchers have found that most of students, even though they are full of confidence with their own internet using ability, are lack of adequate online information seeking and evaluating ability. Therefore, some scholars have proposed collaborative information seeking (CIS) trying to resolve the kind of problem. But the previous researches about CIS are focus on the improvement of auxiliary systems or the enhancement of the group''s information seeking effectiveness. There are seldom studies discussing about the influences on the students'' internet search ability and strategy after they have finished the CIS activities. According to this, we present two main research questions in this paper. After a ten-weeks experiment, we found that most of the subjects have a significantly improvement on their own internet search ability, including not only the accuracy of keywords and links they have chosen but also the reading ability to find out the information they actually need. In the meanwhile, students also changed their personal internet search strategy after the CIS activities. For this reason, they can pay much more attention on reading, understanding and presenting information, instead of wasting most of the time on searching and scanning information.

並列關鍵字

Information Seeking Strategy ； Collaborative Information Seeking ； Internet Search ； Information Seeking Ability

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