TY - JOUR
T1 - University students' online academic help seeking
T2 - The role of self-regulation and information commitments
AU - Cheng, Kun-Hung
AU - Liang, Jyh Chong
AU - Tsai, Chin Chung
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Students' online academic help seeking (OAHS) can be facilitated by the aid of technology, but improvement in OAHS may also involve personal variables such as self-regulated learning (SRL), and 'information commitments' (ICs), which are evaluative standards and strategies of online information. Accordingly, three instruments - an OAHS, an SRL, and an ICs questionnaire - were adopted to explore the role of SRL and ICs in the OAHS of 328 university students in Taiwan. The results verify that the students' perceived SRL mediates the relationships between their perceptions of their ICs and OAHS to some degree. The enhancement of learners' SRL may encourage their use of sophisticated ICs when involved in OAHS. When the students made informal OAHS queries, however, they tended to use less sophisticated strategies, and the significance of their perceived SRL was not apparent. This study contributes to a better understanding of university students' online academic help seeking.
AB - Students' online academic help seeking (OAHS) can be facilitated by the aid of technology, but improvement in OAHS may also involve personal variables such as self-regulated learning (SRL), and 'information commitments' (ICs), which are evaluative standards and strategies of online information. Accordingly, three instruments - an OAHS, an SRL, and an ICs questionnaire - were adopted to explore the role of SRL and ICs in the OAHS of 328 university students in Taiwan. The results verify that the students' perceived SRL mediates the relationships between their perceptions of their ICs and OAHS to some degree. The enhancement of learners' SRL may encourage their use of sophisticated ICs when involved in OAHS. When the students made informal OAHS queries, however, they tended to use less sophisticated strategies, and the significance of their perceived SRL was not apparent. This study contributes to a better understanding of university students' online academic help seeking.
KW - Evaluative standard
KW - Information commitments
KW - Information searching
KW - Online academic help seeking
KW - Online query
KW - Self-regulated learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869503051&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.02.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869503051
SN - 1096-7516
VL - 16
SP - 70
EP - 77
JO - The Internet and Higher Education
JF - The Internet and Higher Education
IS - 1
ER -