University students’ intention to use search engines for research purposes: A structural equation modeling approach

• Published in: Education and information technologies Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 2463 - 2479
• Main Authors: Lavidas, Konstantinos, Achriani, Anthi, Athanassopoulos, Stavros, Messinis, Ioannis, Kotsiantis, Sotiris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.07.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: College Students; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Attitudes; Computer Science; Computers and Education; Education; Educational Practices; Educational Research; Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Intention; Internet software; Internet/Web search services; Search Engines; Structural equation modeling; Structural Equation Models; Student Research; Students; Surveys; Technology Acceptance Model; Undergraduate Students; Usability; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Greece; Technology acceptance model; Scholar Google; Higher education; Search engine; Educational research

Teaching empirical educational research in higher education involves implementing a very useful web tool for bibliography/scientific literature research, a search engine specifically employed for scientific papers, such as “Google Scholar”. The aim of this study is to examine undergraduate students’...