Thus, we conducted an experimental study aimed at analysing the characteristics of online search for educational information (on the model of a simple and complex task) in field dependent and field independent schoolchildren. The results show that “user conf dence” has a dif erent impact on the amount of scanned information in field-dependent and field independent school students: field-independent students with high “user conf dence” scan significantly smaller amount of information (regardless of the type of search task); field-dependent students scan more information in the case of “user uncertainty” in the situation of complex search task, whereas for a simple search task, the level of “user conf dence” does not af ect the amount of scanned information.
