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Timothy M. Daly; James C. Ryan – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2024
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into the search engine optimization practices of major contract cheating websites in the United States. From a business perspective, visibility in organic search engine results is considered one of the top client recruitment tools. The current understanding of student recruitment strategies by…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Contracts, Cheating, Web Sites
Usta, Arif; Altingovde, Ismail Sengor; Ozcan, Rifat; Ulusoy, Ozgur – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
In this digital age, there is an abundance of online educational materials in public and proprietary platforms. To allow effective retrieval of educational resources, it is a necessity to build keyword-based search engines over these collections. In modern Web search engines, high-quality rankings are obtained by applying machine learning…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Online Searching, Information Retrieval, Educational Research
Ham, Chris D. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
Primarily due to their convenience, online search engines such as Google and Bing are becoming a central location for obtaining information. As a result, societies give search engines tremendous control over the spread of information to the public. Through a high-school-level sample lesson plan, the article was written to promote dialogue with…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Online Searching
Wu, Shengli; Zhang, Zhongmin; Xu, Chunlin – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2019
Introduction: Recently, the problem of diversification of search results has attracted a lot of attention in the information retrieval and Web search research community. For multi-faceted or ambiguous queries, a search engine is generally favoured if it is able to identify relevant documents on a wider range of different aspects. Method: We…
Descriptors: Internet, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
Cheng, Yu-Ping; Cheng, Shu-Chen; Huang, Yueh-Min – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Online learning has been widely discussed in education research, and open educational resources have become an increasingly popular way to help learners acquire knowledge. However, these resources contain massive amounts of information, making it difficult for learners to identify Web articles that refer to computer science knowledge. This study…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence
Schultz, Madeleine; Lim, Kieran F.; Goh, Yoong Kuan; Callahan, Damien L. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic led to assessment being conducted online, which gave students opportunities to use internet search engines during examinations. We found that in some cases internet searches resulted in characteristic incorrect responses, and around one third of students entered these answers to examination…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Online Searching, Internet, Chemistry
Java, Oskars – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2021
The aim of the large-scale research entitled "Exploring Documentary Heritage for Building Synergies between Research and Society" is to investigate previously unexplored aspects of the documentary heritage, including the part of the legacy that has previously been subject to censorship and has therefore not been studied in depth. In…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Online Searching, Internet, Eye Movements
Yang, Le – College & Research Libraries, 2016
This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element affects the discovery of items in a digital repository. The study found that keywords from Internet…
Descriptors: Metadata, Internet, Electronic Libraries, Search Engines
Morrison, Renee – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2022
Learning with technology is increasingly understood to be a social process involving unique and telling discourses. An emerging research agenda has resulted, investigating the links between 'talk' and student technological practices but is yet to include home-education. Preliminary evidence exists of a relationship between particular types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Online Searching, Search Engines
Screencasting Information Literacy. Insights in Pre-Service Teachers' Conception of Online Searching
Botturi, Luca; Beretta, Chiara – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
Information Literacy (IL) has been named a key competence for the twentyfirst century and is being progressively introduced in many compulsory school curricula. Nonetheless, the actual implementation of effective IL education cannot be carried out without the sound preparation of teachers. This study explores the naïve, pre-instruction conceptions…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation, Online Searching
Eliseev, Emmaline Drew; Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
People rely on the internet for easy access to information, setting up potential confusion about the boundaries between an individual's knowledge and the information they find online. Across four experiments, we replicated and extended past work showing that online searching inflates people's confidence in their knowledge. Participants who…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Information, Online Searching, Knowledge Level
Briscoe, Simon – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
The literature searches that are used to identify studies for inclusion in a systematic review should be comprehensively reported. This ensures that the literature searches are transparent and reproducible, which is important for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a systematic review and re-running the literature searches when conducting an…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Literature Reviews, Research Reports, Search Engines
Sill, Jody M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
This paper draws on the retrospective accounts of eight LGBT+ students aged 18-21 attending a university in Northern England. Using interpretivist methodology, qualitative research was conducted to explore how their sex and relationships education impacted upon their needs as a sexual and/or gender minority. An under-researched aspect of…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
Misir, Hülya – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
The primary aim of the paper is to introduce digital literacies and the utilization of interactive and multimedia-enhanced tools for language learning purposes in and out of institutional settings. The topics covered in this paper include what digital literacy means in language education contexts and utilization of social media, online gaming,…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Educational Technology, Information Literacy, Technology Integration
Mann, Wolfgang; O'Neill, Rachel; Watkins, Freya; Thompson, Robin L. – Deafness & Education International, 2023
This pilot study explored effects of hearing loss on deaf children's reading comprehension in an online context. Eighteen deaf secondary students, ages 12-14 years (11 with British Sign Language as their dominant language, seven with English as their dominant language) engaged in an online research comprehension task. Six age-matched hearing…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Deafness, Reading Comprehension, Secondary School Students