Share Paper: The impact of scaffolding on characteristics of mental models during information-seeking activity
Friday, October 20 12:10-12:30 PM Junior Ballroom B
Abstract: With the development of e-learning and MOOCs, knowing how to improve information-seeking activity in video-based environments seems to be a major challenge in the coming years Previous research has shown benefits of scaffolding information-seeking in videos We hypothesize then that scaffolding helps information-seeking by providing an external, usable conceptual model Without scaffolding, users have to construct their own mental model, which is costly and time-consuming but serves therefore as an internal representation In the current study, students completed a search task and were divided into two conditions, with or without scaffolding Then they completed a localization task Results show that ...