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- Title
Information-Seeking Behaviour of College Students at Kuwait University Representing Various Academic Majors.
- Authors
Al-Muomen, Nujoud
- Abstract
This paper reports on the findings of an investigation of the information behavior of college students representing various disciplines. The study particularly focused on the practices, techniques, and difficulties associated with the information seeking behavior of students when they search for information resources to conduct course-related assignments. The data were collected from undergraduate students enrolled at Kuwait University. A survey questionnaire was distributed to students in their classes during one academic semester. This research was funded by the Kuwait University research sector. Results showed that college affiliation is significantly related to students' practices, routines and techniques when using information. It was also found that the academic major is significantly related to means by which students use various tools (document sharing programs, online time management programs with sharing, Wikis for creating and sharing web content, photo-sharing sites, virtual research environment, blogging). Significant differences are found between college affiliation and the difficulties encountered by students when working on assignments (getting started, defining a topic, narrowing down a topic, coming up with search terms, finding articles in databases, determining whether or not a website is credible, figuring out where to find sources in different parts, evaluating sources, reading through the material, taking notes, integrating different sources from research, knowing when to cite a source).
- Subjects
INFORMATION-seeking behavior; KUWAIT University (Khaldia, Kuwait); COLLEGE students; COLLEGE majors; STUDENT assignments
- Publication
Umm Al-Qura University Journal of Social Sciences, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 1, p341
- ISSN
1658-4619
- Publication type
Article