about learning theorist

2. • One appealing aspect of the Krikelas model is its simplicity.
• The model is a simple
- one-dimensional flowchart in which all of the
arrows travel in one direction
- no one part of the process encompasses another.
• This simplicity is also the fundamental problem with the
model. As other models have demonstrated, information-
seeking is not a linear process but one that requires that
information seekers gather information, reassess and seek
additional information.

3. Note. From ―Information Seeking Behavior: Patterns and Concepts,‖ by K.
Krikelas, 1983, Drexel Library Quarterly, 19, p. 17.

4. This model suggested that the steps of information seeking :-
• (1) perceiving a need,
• (2) the search itself,
• (3) finding the information, and
• (4) using the information,
• Result : satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
• ‘‘information seeking begins when someone perceives that
the current state of knowledge is less than that needed to
deal with some issue or problems