METHODS FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION SEARCH STRATEGIES BY CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET. OVERVIEW OF FOREIGN STUDIES
The paper analyzes studies on cognitive styles and strategies that students use for web search. In the course of these studies, very productive methods have been proposed that can be useful to researchers who are interested in how people search for information necessary to fulfill their goals and make decisions about the choice of this or that information for further work. It is possible to study direct work on the Internet or solve simulation problems. In the first case, you can observe a real search for a solution, the second option is interesting because all the subjects are put in exactly the same conditions. Research methods can be divided into software, instrumental, and observation methods. In the first case, the Windows software package is used to evaluate human behavior during the search process. In the second case, a variety of tools are used: EEG recording, ECG, KGR, parameters evaluated by an eye-tracker, fMRI, MEG, and other methods. Three parameters: gaze fixation, pupillary dilatation, and blinking frequency are non-invasive and complementary parameters with clear neural bases. Observation methods, on the one hand, are time - consuming, on the other hand, allow you to get a lot of information about individual behavior in the process of web search. Simultaneous use of different methods dramatically increases the ability to identify the relevance of information to the subject.