Information commitments: evaluative standards and information searching strategies in web-based learning environments

‘Information commitments’ include both a set of evaluative standards that Web users utilize to assess the accuracy and usefulness of information in Web‐based learning environments (implicit component), and the information searching strategies that Web users use on the Internet (explicit component). An ‘Information Commitment Survey’ (ICS), consisting of aforementioned components, was developed. The participants of this study were 610 university...