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Epistemic Beliefs, Online Search Strategies, and Behavioral Patterns While Exploring Socioscientific Issues

Authors: Chung-Yuan Hsu, Meng-Jung Tsai, Huei-Tse Hou, Chin-Chung Tsai

Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology | Issue 3/2014

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Online information searching tasks are usually implemented in a technology-enhanced science curriculum or merged in an inquiry-based science curriculum. The purpose of this study was to examine the role students’ different levels of scientific epistemic beliefs (SEBs) play in their online information searching strategies and behaviors. Based on the measurement of an SEB survey, 42 undergraduate and graduate students in Taiwan were recruited from a pool of 240 students and were divided into sophisticated and naïve SEB groups. The students’ self-perceived online searching strategies were evaluated by the Online Information Searching Strategies Inventory, and their search behaviors were recorded by screen-capture videos. A sequential analysis was further used to analyze the students’ searching behavioral patterns. The results showed that those students with more sophisticated SEBs tended to employ more advanced online searching strategies and to demonstrate a more metacognitive searching pattern.

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Title: Epistemic Beliefs, Online Search Strategies, and Behavioral Patterns While Exploring Socioscientific Issues
Authors: Chung-Yuan Hsu
Meng-Jung Tsai
Huei-Tse Hou
Chin-Chung Tsai
Publication date: 01-06-2014
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 1059-0145
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1839
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-013-9477-1

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