Concept for Project

Using Kuhlthau's (1991) findings from a study of high school students published in 1990 that states "40 participants identified as low achievers were incomplete and could not be analyzed in the study" (P365). This study relates directly to the information seeking process of students and, as stated, lower achievers are bottoming out during the searching process before even beginning to write papers. I would like to use this concept as my starting point for my searching project and work with one student from a high school psychology class to find credible and worthwhile information sources for a in-depth research project. Having completed a similar project when I was in the same teacher's class a few years back, I am aware of the many layers of information required in order to achieve an above average presentation.

Kuhlthau, C. (1991). Inside the Search Process: Information Seeking from the User's Perspective, Journal of the American Society for Infromation Science, 42 (5), 361-370.

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