Information-Seeking Strategy Use Profiles and Students' Behaviors During Information-Seeking Tasks

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: Self-Regulated Learning Strategies

Abstract

Information seeking in an open online environment is effortful and complex. Students need to use cognitive and metacognitive strategies in order to successfully complete an information search task. It’s important to understand how students with specific patterns of learning strategy use behave in classroom-based information seeking tasks. The purpose of this study is to investigate cognitive and metacognitive strategy use patterns for information seeking tasks using a person-centered approach. We then qualitatively examine how students with specific strategy use patterns execute information seeking tasks, using content analysis of transcribed think aloud interviews, classroom observation notes, audio recordings of classroom interactions, and student-generated artifacts. We found four clusters of strategy use, each with unique associations with students’ information seeking behaviors.

Authors

• Vanessa Wanchanit Vongkulluksn, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Lin Lu, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Kui Xie, The Ohio State University

• ZILU JIANG, The Ohio State University