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88 7 Understanding Students’ Online Behavior While They Search on the Internet:...

Table 7.1 Student 10,113—Selected lines from the student proxy sources list in the dashboard

Website

Occurrences

http://it.wikipedia.org 1405

http://www.britannica.com 794

http://www.merriam-webster.com 680

http://www.medicinenet.com 574

http://www.wordreference.com 451

http://www.youtube.com 450

http://www.differencebetween.com 383

http://prezi.com 328

http://www.organsofthebody.com 322

http://www.diabetes.org 311

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com 215

http://www.nal.usda.gov 156

supplements, and science popularization pages), followed by monolingual dictionaries

(17.6%), institutional websites (13.5%), Wikipedia (19.7%), and other encyclopedias

(11.6%).

The search strategies of student 10,113 are in keeping with the teacher’s suggestions

to search in a wide range of websites and to focus on content-based sites rather

than language-based ones. However, the data entered in the sources field were the

student’s declaration that, all in all, Wikipedia was the most profitable source,

probably because it offers basic scientific information in a highly structured way.

The teacher can use this type of information, for example, to open a class discussion

about the range of available sources and their advantages and disadvantages.

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