*Source: Ars Technica (
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...thought.html)*
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A new study conducted at a California liberal arts college found that students don't look first at Wikipedia when given a research assignment. They don't even go to Google or Yahoo. Instead, most students look at their course readings, talk to professors, and use their library's web site and databases. Hurrah for US research skills? Not exactly.
The study appears in the current issue of First Monday, a peer-reviewed online-only journal dealing with digital culture. Researchers at St. Mary's, a small liberal arts college in California, took a look at what students did when confronted with a new research assignment from a professor. The findings aren't especially surprising: the first thing students did was to get confused and procrastinate. Once they finally settled down to work, though, the surprises began.
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