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

Large-scale Assessments in Education

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Table 6 Transition probability matrix of search strategies used throughout the task

	Cluster assignment of next web search session
	Cluster1	Cluster2	Cluster3	Cluster4	Done
Cluster assignment of current web search session
Cluster1	0.19	0.19	0.09	0	0.53
Cluster2	0.19	0.35	0.08	0.02	0.37
Cluster3	0.27	0.29	0.19	0	0.25
Cluster4	0.30	0.20	0.20	0.10	0.20