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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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