Students and teachers know and expect the information resources in the collection to have direct or indirect application to the school's programme of learning and as such have been able to remove from their own search procedures that first stage requiring them to sort the chaff from the wheat. The study revealed that the classroom teacher and students searching the Internet were woefully under-prepared for the diversity and enormity of search results. Meanwhile, Group A students considered their one or two successful hits in the traditional library an acceptable result and fulfilled their expectations. The study clearly indicated that teachers and students alike need to acquire the fundamental skills of selection. Pre selectivity has long been fundamental and acceptable in the school environment, but it will not prepare students for the real world information overload on the Internet.
Informed selection is a real skill.
Other issues that arose involved questions of accuracy and authority of information. From our experiences in this study, it is imperative that students recognise that the Net offers no guarantees of quality. One of our concerns in this study related to productivity. Productivity was looked at from two perspectives. Time productivity was associated with questions of how much work was accomplished for the amount of class time available.