How do students organize personal information spaces?

Sharon Hardof-Jaffe; Arnon Hershkovitz; Hama Abu-Kishk; Ofer Bergman; Rafi Nachmias

How do students organize personal information spaces?

Sharon Hardof-Jaffe, Arnon Hershkovitz, Hama Abu-Kishk, Ofer Bergman, Rafi Nachmias

Department of Communication Studies

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to empirically reveal strategies of students' organization of learning-related digital materials within an online personal information archive. Research population included 518 students who utilized the personal Web space allocated to them on the university servers for archiving information items, and data describing their directory hierarchies. Several variables for measuring folders size and depth were defined, and four of them were chosen as best representing different aspects of the user's archive structure. Then, as a result of cluster analysis of the students, four organization strategies emerged, refining the classical piling/filing classification: piling, one-folder filing, small-folders filing, and big-folder filing. Also, associations were found between the organization strategies and archive size, students' studies degree. A discussion of this study and further research is provided.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009
Subtitle of host publication	2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining
Pages	250-258
Number of pages	9
State	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Event	2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM'09 - Cordoba, Spain Duration: 1 Jul 2009 → 3 Jul 2009

Publication series

Name	EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM'09
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Cordoba
Period	1/07/09 → 3/07/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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Hardof-Jaffe, S, Hershkovitz, A, Abu-Kishk, H, Bergman, O & Nachmias, R 2009, How do students organize personal information spaces? in EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining. EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, pp. 250-258, 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM'09, Cordoba, Spain, 1/07/09.

How do students organize personal information spaces? / Hardof-Jaffe, Sharon; Hershkovitz, Arnon; Abu-Kishk, Hama et al.
EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining. 2009. p. 250-258 (EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review