Understanding Information Seeking Behavior of Indonesian Postgraduate Students in Malaysian Universities: An Empirical Study
Abstract: This study investigates Indonesian
postgraduate student’s experience at the pre-sessional program of the process
of seeking information and the strategies they used throughout the process. The
objective is to understand their information seeking behavior particularly
academic-related information in order to improve the effectiveness of
educational communication in Malaysia higher institutions. Two research
questions are addressed: what experiences do pre-sessional students face in the
process of information seeking that can be articulated and described? What
stages do pre-sessional students experience in the process of information
seeking construction? Using the qualitative method, the study found that the
pre-sessional students have different patterns in the constructive process of information
seeking in two different groups i.e. writing and reading classes. Six stages
and four stages of the search process were identified respectively for the two
groups.
Keywords: Information-seeking, educational communication, constructive
process, higher education, postgraduate, Indonesia, Malaysia
Author: Muhammad Subhan dan
Ahmad Bashawir Abdul, Ghani
Journal Code: jpkomunikasigg080002
