THE EXAMINATION OF TEACHER’S ONLINE INFORMATION SEARCHING STRATEGIES IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES

The purpose of this study is to determine the teacher’s online information searching strategies by the gender, daily internet use and expertise in information searching on the web. The data was collected through demographic information questionnarie and think aloud protocol from 42 teachers. Qualitative data were coded according to the frequency of information searching strategies in the literature. Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used for analyzing study data. Analyses of the results showed that teachers’ information searching strategies had no differences between gender and daily internet use. Significant difference was found between expert and novice teachers in the purposeful thinking strategy.