Abstract

The study developed a Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Scale (B61PS), including the subscales of task definition and information-seeking strategies, information access and synthesis, and evaluation. More than 1,500 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded. The study revealed that the scale showed adequate reliability in assessing the adolescents' perceptions about the Big 6 information problem-solving approach. In addition, the adolescents had quite different responses toward different subscales of the approach. Moreover, females tended to have higher quality information-searching skills than their male counterparts. The adolescents of different grades also displayed varying views toward the approach. Other results are also provided. (Contains 7 tables.)

Citation

Chang, C.S. (2007). An Investigation of Taiwanese Early Adolescents' Self-Evaluations Concerning the Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Approach. Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 42(166),. Retrieved August 13, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/70643/.

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Keywords

• Access to Information
• Adolescents
• Age Differences
• computer literacy
• Early Adolescents
• Foreign Countries
• gender differences
• Grade 5
• Grade 6
• Information Seeking
• Information Skills
• information technology
• Measures (Individuals)
• problem solving
• Self Evaluation (Individuals)
• Test Reliability
• Test Validity