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Understanding Teacher Users Of A Digital Library Service: A Clustering Approach, Beijie Xu
Understanding Teacher Users Of A Digital Library Service: A Clustering Approach, Beijie Xu
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This research examined teachers' online behaviors while using a digital library service—the Instructional Architect (IA)—through three consecutive studies. In the first two studies, a statistical model called latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to cluster different groups of IA teachers according to their diverse online behaviors. The third study further examined relationships between teachers' demographic characteristics and their usage patterns. Several user clusters emerged from the LCA results of Study I. These clusters were named isolated islanders, lukewarm teachers, goal-oriented brokers, window shoppers, key brokers, beneficiaries, classroom practitioners, and dedicated sticky users. …