Paper Info
Title
Research anxiety and students' perceptions of research: an experiment. Part I: Effect of teaching Kuhlthau's ISP model
Abstract
This two-part study investigates the effect of a 30-minutepresentation of Carol Kuhlthau's Information Search Process (ISP)model on students' perceptions of research and research paperanxiety. An experiment was designed to collect both quantitativeand qualitative data during a semester. An upper divisionundergraduate course, Technical and Professional Writing, with foursections participated in the experiment in fall 1999. A surveyinstrument, the Research Process Survey (RPS), was developed tocollect data about students' feelings and thoughts at the onset oftheir course research project (pretest) and at the completion ofthe project (posttest). A standard anxiety test (STAI Y-1) wasadopted to measure anxiety levels during pretest and posttestsessions and at two additional points between. Two of the foursections heard a guest presentation of the ISP model as treatmentafter the pretest; the other two sections heard a different guestspeak about career experiences as a technical writer (a placebotalk). The results of this experiment are reported in two articlesaccording to the nature of the collected data. This article reportson results of the quantitative analysis. Four hypotheses wereproposed to examine the effects on awareness of cognitive aspects,awareness of affective aspects, level of anxiety, and satisfactionwith research. One hypothesis was supported. A significant changein anxiety levels was measured (p = 0.5). Althoughstatistical tests did not reject three null hypotheses, positivetrends in change as a result of the ISP model were identified. Asecond article reports on results of qualitative analysis of thetexts that participants wrote about a memorable past researchexperience and about the current research experience.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1002/asi.10040
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
standard anxiety test,anxiety level,research anxiety,significant changein anxiety level,satisfactionwith research,isp model,research paperanxiety,quantitativeand qualitative data,current research experience,tocollect data,onset oftheir course research,higher education,hypothesis testing,statistical analysis
Social science,Technical writing,Professional writing,Information retrieval,Qualitative property,Computer science,Information seeking,Anxiety,Information search process,Feeling,Applied psychology,Technical writer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
4
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.49
4
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacqueline Kracker1463.80