Combining cognitive theory and data driven approaches to examine students’ search behaviors in simulated digital environments

Large-scale Assessments in Education

An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal

Table 4 Sample size and scoring of task when different information locating strategies are used

Search Behavior Cluster	Size	Percent of sequences in which any points were earned (%)	Average percent possible points earned (%)
Search Behavior Cluster	Size	Percent of sequences in which any points were earned (%)	Mean	SD
Cluster1	99	65.7	29.3	25.9
Cluster2	162	50.0	18.5	22.1
Cluster3	48	31.3	8.5	14.6
Cluster4	10	20.0	7.5	16.9

Average percent possible points earned reflects how many points a student earns in a search session out of the number of points they have yet to earn within the task. This accounts for the fact that the amount of information available to find diminishes as students locate and accumulate information