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Students’ perception and habits in choosing online literature sources for seminar papers

As the authors’ experience in lecturing shows students are ever more inclined to use the Internet as the main source of literature for seminar papers and other mandatory faculty tasks. Easy access to the Internet as well as the number and diversity of information has brought many advantages but has also made its consumers careless and uncritical. In this research 326 students were tested in order to determine their habits in finding, choosing and evaluating various literature sources for seminar papers. Participants were tested via an online questionnaire devised for this purpose. Moreover, 144 actual first year students’ seminars have been analysed in order to determine their typical literature sources. Results show that majority of students (68%) use the Internet as their first literature source. This tendency is even higher among final year students. Among nine listed sources, the highest credibility is given to scientific databases, and the lowest to blogs and forums. What is more, among five listed criteria for choosing an Internet text, the highest rate was given to website type. But in actual seminar papers, scientific databases were rarely used, as opposed to anonymous and non-reviewed online texts.

information literacy ; student’s seminar papers ; information credibility

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