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Subject: Research on use of internet by prospective college students
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Asked by: scottmedia-ga
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Posted: 04 Feb 2005 09:04 PST
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Question ID: 468759
I am trying research that shows the percentage of prospective college students
(high school age and/or prospective graduate students) that use the
internet (or search engines) for research prior to application
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Subject: Re: Research on use of internet by prospective college students
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 04 Feb 2005 10:41 PST
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
According to an article in In Vol. 6, no. 9 of  Stamats? QuickTakes, 
76% of college-bound students use the Internet to research colleges.

"The same study showed that the information they most often seek is
admissions criteria, specific descriptions of academic programs, cost,
and facts about athletics. ?

Source: 
Stamats? QuickTakes 
Insights into Research, Strategic Planning, and Integrated Marketing
for Colleges and Universities by Dr. Robert A. Sevier, Senior Vice
President at Stamats Vol. 6, no. 9: Maximize Your Web Site
http://www.stamats.com/quicktakes/vol_6_n9.htm
http://www.stamats.com/quicktakes/vol_6_n9.htm#tagline


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Students favor technology in the college search process. 

?Eighty-two percent of 2002 college-bound high school graduates would
like to receive e-mail messages from colleges, compared with only 48
percent who would like to receive phone calls. (Project Connect)

Sixty-six percent of students would choose Web sites over print
materials in the college search process if they could only choose one
medium. (Project Connect)

When asked if a college Web site and e-mails increased their interest
in applying to the institution, more than 75 percent responded that
college Web sites and e-mails either ?greatly increased? or ?somewhat
increased? their interest in applying to the institution. (George
Dehne and Associates)

Ninety-five percent of schools reported an increase in the number of
electronic applications from the previous year. (National Association
of College Admission Counseling)?

Hobsons EMT Management 
http://www.emt.hobsons.com/impress/webportal.html

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Additional information that may interest you:

 ?StudentPoll has chronicled the rapid growth in the uses of web
technologies among college-bound high school students nationwide.?

Source: The Use of Technologies in College Choice
January 29, 2003
Volume 5, Issue 3 
http://www.artsci.com/StudentPOLL/v5n3/publishers_note.htm
Findings and Supporting Data
http://www.artsci.com/StudentPOLL/v5n3/findings_data.htm

Findings:
What sections or features on college web sites were most valuable to
students in the college decision-making process? Has this changed any
since it was first explored?
http://www.artsci.com/StudentPOLL/v5n3/question4.htm

Findings:
Is the online application now preferred by most students? When they
applied to colleges, did students use a paper, online or some other
application? How has application use and preference changed over time?
http://www.artsci.com/StudentPOLL/v5n3/question5.htm

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Search criteria:

students "use the internet to research colleges OR universities
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-23%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=students+%22use+the+internet+to+research+colleges+OR+universities+


I hope this is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Request for Answer Clarification by scottmedia-ga on 04 Feb 2005 11:40 PST
Thank you.

Did you find anything that talks specifically about their use of
search engines for research or how graduate students use the
internet/search engines?

Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 04 Feb 2005 11:58 PST
I'll check and get back to you as soon as I can.

Thanks,
Bobbie7

Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 04 Feb 2005 12:29 PST
Dear Scottmedia,

I found the following reports and articles for you.


Why Students Prefer Google and Use Library Resources as a Last Resort
Presented at the 2004 TLA Conference
http://www.tnla.org/TL/v54n2/shuttle.htm

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OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students
10 pages
http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/informationhabits.pdf

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) recently released a report,
titled "OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College
Students.

?The survey concluded the following about the students surveyed
(sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points):

80 percent use Internet search engines for "every" assignment or "most" assignments
50 percent use information from library Web portals or class Web sites
Nearly 70 percent said they "strongly feel they know best what
information to accept from the Web"
50 percent said the information on the Web wasn't sufficient for their
class assignments.?
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=447

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The Internet Goes to College
This is a report of a study of college students? use of the Internet.
Most all college students surveyed had used the Internet. The academic
and social impacts of their Internet use is discussed.
22 pages
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_College_Report.pdf

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Fully 86% of college students use the Internet, compared to 59% of the
overall U.S. population, and the students say the Internet is
essential to their academic and social lives.

Key findings:  

?79% of college Internet users say the Internet has had a positive
impact on their college academic experience.
73% use the Internet more than the library for research. 
72% check their email every day. 
60% think the Internet has improved their relationships with classmates. 
56% believe that email has enhanced their relationship with professors. 
46% say email enables them to express ideas to a professor that they
would not have expressed in class.?
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/50/press_release.asp

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College Students and the Web: A Pew Internet Data Memo
8 pages
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_College_Memo.pdf

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The Internet and Education: Findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
10 pages
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Schools_Report.pdf

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The Use of Electronic Resources Among Undergraduate and Graduate Students
http://www.epic.columbia.edu/eval/find03.html

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Search Engine Users
36 pages
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Searchengine_users.pdf


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I hope this additional information is useful!


Best regards,
Bobbie7

Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 04 Feb 2005 12:38 PST
?More than eight of 10 undergraduates (83%) regularly use information
technology in their academic work, but an even larger share (87%) say
their peers at least "sometimes" copy and paste information from the
Web without citing the source, according to the 2003 report from the
National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2003-11-09-students-it_x.htm?csp=15

Needle ? Haystack + You: How undergraduates search and use the Internet
Caroline M. Stern
5 pages
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2002/PDFs/STC49-00054.pdf

College graduates are also more likely to use a search engine on a
typical day (39%, compared to 20% of high school graduates)
http://www.link2city.com/search-engine.htm
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