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      How k-12 students search for learning?: analysis of an educational search engine log

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      Usta, Arif
      Altıngövde, İsmail Şengör
      Vidinli, İ. B.
      Özcan, R.
      Ulusoy, Özgür
      Date
      2014-07
      Source Title
      SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
      Publisher
      ACM
      Pages
      1151 - 1154
      Language
      English
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      Conference Paper
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      In this study, we analyze an educational search engine log for shedding light on K-12 students' search behavior in a learning environment. We specially focus on query, session, user and click characteristics and compare the trends to the findings in the literature for general web search engines. Our analysis helps understanding how students search with the purpose of learning in an educational vertical, and reveals new directions to improve the search performance in the education domain. Copyright 2014 ACM.
      Keywords
      Computer aided instruction
      Information retrieval
      Search engines
      Education domain
      Learning environments
      Search behavior
      Search performance
      Shedding light
      Students
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26908
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      https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2609532
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