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The Internet users who fail to cope with navigation may generally face various
problems such as disorientation, distraction, low motivation and abondenment of
information retrieval. Therefore, navigational aids are frequently used in today’s Web
browsers and Web sites to help users navigate on the Internet. However, it is
asserted that navigational aids are still not thoroughly understood and effectively
used by Information Technologies Teacher candidates. The purpose of this research
is, therefore, to determine the navigational aids use by Information Technologies
Candidate Teachers during information retrieval process on the Internet. A threesection
survey was developed for this purpose. In this survey research, Information
Technologies Teacher Candidates’ use of navigational aids in Web sites and Web
browsers, and the reasons for low use of navigational aids were investigated. The
findings of the study revealed that the teacher candidates did not use bookmarks,
Web maps, RSS and atom feeds sufficiently. Moreover, it was found out that the use
of navigational aids by teacher candidates show variations according to the average
Internet use.
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