TY - GEN
T1 - How do students organize personal information spaces?
AU - Hardof-Jaffe, Sharon
AU - Hershkovitz, Arnon
AU - Abu-Kishk, Hama
AU - Bergman, Ofer
AU - Nachmias, Rafi
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The purpose of this study is to empirically reveal strategies of students' organization of learning-related digital materials within an online personal information archive. Research population included 518 students who utilized the personal Web space allocated to them on the university servers for archiving information items, and data describing their directory hierarchies. Several variables for measuring folders size and depth were defined, and four of them were chosen as best representing different aspects of the user's archive structure. Then, as a result of cluster analysis of the students, four organization strategies emerged, refining the classical piling/filing classification: piling, one-folder filing, small-folders filing, and big-folder filing. Also, associations were found between the organization strategies and archive size, students' studies degree. A discussion of this study and further research is provided.
AB - The purpose of this study is to empirically reveal strategies of students' organization of learning-related digital materials within an online personal information archive. Research population included 518 students who utilized the personal Web space allocated to them on the university servers for archiving information items, and data describing their directory hierarchies. Several variables for measuring folders size and depth were defined, and four of them were chosen as best representing different aspects of the user's archive structure. Then, as a result of cluster analysis of the students, four organization strategies emerged, refining the classical piling/filing classification: piling, one-folder filing, small-folders filing, and big-folder filing. Also, associations were found between the organization strategies and archive size, students' studies degree. A discussion of this study and further research is provided.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77958154630
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AN - SCOPUS:77958154630
SN - 9788461323081
T3 - EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining
SP - 250
EP - 258
BT - EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009
PB - International Educational Data Mining Society
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2009
Y2 - 1 July 2009 through 3 July 2009
ER -