they god four surveys from car buyers and establish a model
the period of recolection was between 199 and 2005 and there was an increase in using internet from 40 % to 75 % in 2008
older buyers have it easier, because if they liked a certain model, they may just purchase of a newer model
this consumer may to wish to search or price information
there are various scenarios how this consumer recolects the information on price - catalogue, from the dealer, internet (depending on the consumer itselv)
at the times without internet this process was much slower
younger consumer, who was not satisfied with his previous car, may need more information - e.g. about new brands
prior to the Internet, they would gather information, by visiting and asking the deleer, talking to others, from newspapers or reading books in libraries
with internet cost to gather information, like traveling to dealer can be reduced
still due to the need of test drive[komentář 1], the consumer may need to visit the dealer
the above mentioned need a decision of time allocation for the search of the information
the model created is based on ones choices
5 sources considered: dealer, interpresonal sources, third party print sources, advertisements, and Internet
RESULTS
all groups were in favor to recolect information from the dealer
educated buyers under 40 were havily dependent on Internet
less people were willing to spend much time in searching on the Internet in higher years - that may push the need to delers to focus on Internet and provide better and esasy to acces information online
Information search beviour and its determinats: the case of etical attributes of organic food (Zander, 2012)[2]
cognitive decline may lead older people search less for information, handle large information, etc. (Queen, 2010)[6]
on the other hand, older people may have better decision making, strategies of acqusition of new knowledge (Meyer, 2007)[7]
so the age related loses maybe compensated by the fact elders can better handle information(Queen, 2010)[6]
goall of this study is to examine interactions between age and task complexity
for determinign information search stategies
and behavior
young and older adults use different search strategies
e.g. older adults spend more time searching information matrix, than young adults, but viewed less information (Johnson, 1990;[8] Johnson, 2000;[9] Mata, 2010[10])
older adouts tent to compare same attributes across options (Johnson, 1990;[8] Riggle, 1996[11])
younger compare alternatives with each other (Johnson, 1990;[8] Riggle, 1996[11])
older users tend to find "satisfactory" rather tan "the best (Riggle, 1996)[11]
studies also sudgest that olders, have worst chosing
METHOD
PARTICIPANTS
47 young, 46 middle-age and 42 older participants from laboratory database
30 USD givent to each
MATERIALS
MATRIX CONSTRUCTION
matrices with information cells were contructed
matrices were introduced via Mouselab programe
plus and minus indicating relevance
ADDITIONAL MEASURES
scales were inlcluded to measure processing speed, working memory, verbal ability
PROCEDURE
prior testing paritciepants recevied package of questionaires
on the test day, particiapant have to click on the information to disclose it
Komentář: pretty difficult methodology but concrete, its a question, how goot is and why those steps follow each other
...
based on some training first and testing the second
RESULTS
SEARCH CHARACTERISTICS
calculated time spend on search, mean time spent studying an open cll, proportion of cells opened at least once, mean number of time a cell was reopened after initial viewing, the correlation between rate importanc for an atrribute dimension characteristics were measured
odlers were having much higher study time, sampled slightly more cells, and have slightly more repeated viewings
the amount of information sampled decreased with increased complexity
increased complexity was disruptive to systematic search
no evidence that task complexity was influencing older participants
SEARCH STRATEGY
Riedl algorythm used to identify search strategy
most of the participants used simple satisficing stragegy (49 %) and complex satisficing strategy (65 %)
20 % have changec strategy from a compensatory strategy in the simple array to noncompensatory strategy in the complex array[komentář 3]
PREDICTORS OF STRATEGY USE
discriminant analysis used to find characteristics, which may influence participant use of a strategy
noncompensatory strategy used by higher educated, good healts and ability[komentář 4] - thats in contrast of previous studies, which were taking this to elderly
compensatory strategies were related to motivation
CHOICE
no age effects were found
"good enough" choice let to satisfiction
DISCUSSION
no finding of expectations - different ages operates in complex tasks the same way[komentář 5] - the reasearcher thing that this might be due to the method chosed
and findingys of this study are in contrary to previous studies
Information Retrieval Skills of Research Scholars of Social Sciences: A Study (Prasad, 2014)[12]
visiting schollars were accidently sampled and 100 questionaires were provided of which 82 were received back[komentář 10]
11 questions with 7 area of interest
ANALYSIS OF DATA AND DISCUSSIONS
data anylsed acording area of interest (objectives)
CHANNELS OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
the channels were diviede into informal (consulting a colegue or e-sources) and formal (primary, secondary, or tertiary sources)[komentář 11]
results show highe preference to e-sources and consulting a friend or collegue, while technological gatekeepers (probably librarinans? were not important at all)
from formal sources secondary, followed by primary were the wining ones
PREDOMINANT INFORMATIN REQUIRED BY THE SCHOLARS
most of the schollars search for academic/research information (71 %) followed by employment information (20 %)
PREFERRED LOCATION TO OBTAIN INFORMATION
the institute library and Internet were the most popular places to find information[komentář 12]
CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION
they conclude that if 22 % of thee schollars were not able to identify words which doesnt go together, they will have problems in search, really!!!
looks like not so quelity study...
Researching Latin America, part two: A survey of how the new generation is doing its research (Mazurkiewicz, 2014)[13]
first part was surveying students in the US, (Mazurkiewicz 2007)[14] this seccond part surveysing students with the address in Latin America
authors of previous study worked at the library of Arizona State University
they were flustrated of lack of interest by students of what library poses
so they have perform research on the topic[komentář 13]
LITERATURE REVIEW
Catalano (2013) found that graduade students doesnt use advanced search techniquies[15]
students in previsous studies had problems with choosing keywords, refining searches (=zpřesnění vyhledávání) and dealing with information overload
in Honk Kong phd students were not using advanced teqniques nor they improved after instruction[komentář 14]
such studies come from around the world
studies also pointed out that students overrated their search skills
they were more confident with search engines, than databases
several studies show, that graduate students improved after visiting library courses
surprisingly graduate students start their search on internet, while university would think, that use more specific resources such as databases[komentář 15]
other studies show, that students prefer available journals upon those not available
if students cannot find fulltext, they will use information just from the abstract - 50 % of the students said (Researches of Tomorrow, 2012)[16]
Kayongo (2010)[17] and Vezzosi (2009)[18] found that uni students prefere electronic resources over print ones even of books (62 % in favour)[komentář 16]
Fleming (2009)[19] found, that University of Alabama expect that arriving students are already prepared to behave as full researchers
here Catalano points out that even faculty is not good in searching and is not avare of what can be provided to students (like what library provides)[komentář 17]
so the recomendation by Catalano is, that student supervisors are trained in the topic
studies also show, that students never asked helped from the library, some think their search needs are so complex the library dont want help
there are few cross country studies, but Romanos de Tiratel (2000)[20] came to the conclussion that researcher has same need, doesnt matter the country of field of the research
Al-Suqri (2011)[21] point to the fact, that researcher who learn seeking models in the West, could improve the practices after arrival, but the models should be accustomed to local conditions - e.g. lack of internet, or knowledge of English
METHOD
the survey covering different areas was created
it head different sections regarding the need of this study
it was devided into 3 secctions: how you do your research, tools you use for latin-american related research, and sociodemographical section
students from the association were used
201 initations to online survey in Spanish and Portuguese was mailed to students in Latin America
56 surveys were finnally submited
SURVEY RESULTS
THE RESPONDENTS
they were from difrent levels of uni studies
most studied in Brazil and Argentina
top studying fields were antrhoplogy, history, political science, sociology and literature
LANGUAGES OF RESEARCH
they have to list 3 languages they use in the research
73 % did research in Spanish or Portuguese
42 % in the other one (Spanish or Portuguese)
16 % English
English was the most commonly used languages
RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR[komentář 18]
60 % points out that medium which holds information is important
67 % of students still uses "shelves of the library" to find information (probably because as mentioned here, LA universities has fewer onlin acces)
87 % students streesed the imprtance of chaining citations - i.e. finding sources e.g. in the introduction of articles
most of the students does not search information in uni library
USE OF RESEARCH TOOLS
the use of the 4 provided research tools was very low
most of the students didnt know, about these tools
if asked what they use, most agreed on JSTOR, and some regional services, while the traditional ones like Google Scolar, Scopus, wos, wikipedia were almost not mentioned[komentář 19]
↑The question is, wether this technique does not lead to certain bias - like preasure, or knowling the researcher.
↑This also looks like, the researcher dont know much about sampling and sample frame characteristics, if trying to recolect as much as answers as possible.
↑Another highly problematic sampling, which may lead to bias. And not so much because of everybody was asked when the researcher was present, but the fact of researcher presence. Maybe better would be to do it visout the preasure just leaving questionaires as pointed prof. Vinopal on his lectures.
↑The question is what are e-sources! It looks that formal sources are considered here as printed.
↑But again, if sombody visits internet in the library, does it goes under the category of library, or Internet? Or does it meand that in India in 2014, there is no Internet in the Libraries and just hard printed resources might be consumed? But this should be explained in the study!
↑And here can come the bias as Burianek said too. Researching topic in which I am deepely involved.
↑But I would ask wether students need it. If they have their own strategy which is based on e.g. reading everything, why to follow guidelines for some specific search if we now, that specific search might not be good enough and you can filtrer your studies using other ways!
↑And again, what is wrong on that? What is wrong, if a student for initial understanding uses Wikipedia. If the Wikipedia is not used as a resource for the thesis, why not to get in touch with the topic via tertiary resource?
↑But yet again, I would point out here, that the problem might not be in not being avaire of the advanced search techniques, availability in libraries, etc., but rather the fackt students are not tought about the types of text (primary, secondary, tertiary), licenses and e.g. the fact article not available could be requested by e-mail from the author.
↑Its seems same problems we have in Czech Republic, if older generation does not have such techniques, they cannot provide training to students - other major problem is new type of teaching, were many courses students pick by themselves or better to say, there are just few courses obligatory.
↑The problem of the article is that in methodology mixes the results from previous study, which is not explained in this article and also discuss the comparisms just within this secction!
↑But this probably depends, how the question is understood. Wikipedia or Google cannot be compared with scientific resources.
↑TO MY RESEARCH: It would be interesting to find out, where Wikipedians received information on how to search resources etc.
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