Influence of contextual factors on university students’ task model and relationships between search strategies and search outcome with a search engine
Résumé
The study examined: the interplay of task context and complexity on task model, and the impact of task model on information search strategies and outcome. University students completed search tasks framed in an academic or a non-academic context. Task context and task complexity mostly impacted search strategies, confirming that context can increase standards of coherence. Task model standards increased source recall and mediated the impact of task context on search strategies and source recall.