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“Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of theGoogle search is an increasingly lost one. A recent study at Illinois Wesleyan University found that fewer than 25% of students could perform a ‘reasonably well-executed search.’ Wrote researchers, ‘The majority of students — of all levels — exhibited significant difficulties that ranged across nearly every aspect of the search process.’”
I’ve heard this from librarians, too - students don’t know how to perform searches that will lead them to the materials they want. They have a hard time coming up with queries, or don’t know how to set helpful advanced search features to drill down the types of results that turn up.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwii038Xvb1r6dt1lo1_1280.gif)
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“Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of theGoogle search is an increasingly lost one. A recent study at Illinois Wesleyan University found that fewer than 25% of students could perform a ‘reasonably well-executed search.’ Wrote researchers, ‘The majority of students — of all levels — exhibited significant difficulties that ranged across nearly every aspect of the search process.’”
I’ve heard this from librarians, too - students don’t know how to perform searches that will lead them to the materials they want. They have a hard time coming up with queries, or don’t know how to set helpful advanced search features to drill down the types of results that turn up.
Source: Mashable
