Students who are adept at accessing information electronically may be less skilled in managing this information, as evidenced by

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any or all of these. Students may truncate a search before identifying the best and most current sources of information. Given a mass of information, some students are unable to discriminate between what fits well with the question being researched and what is tangential to the topic. Other students may be immobilized by the mass of information collected and not know where to begin to sort it out. Finally, the search for information needs to be applied to resolution of a problem rather than a description of it, which requires the student to draw conclusions and select a solution, involving reasoning from the accumulated information, a step that many students are unable to take initially.

Students Who Are Adept at Accessing Information Electronically May Be