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Search engines and how students think they work

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SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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To investigate the nature of people's understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to "draw a labeled sketch of how search engines work." A reference model was constructed and each sketch was analyzed and compared against it for completeness. The paper presents preliminary results and discusses the implications for educational assessment and curriculum design on the one hand, and information system design on the other.

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SIGIR '05: Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

August 2005

708 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1076034

General Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
University of Chile, Chile
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Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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University of North Carolina, USA
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Alistair Moffat
University of Melbourne, Australia
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John Tait
University of Sunderland, UK

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