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An Assessment of Content Quality in Websites of Basic and Secondary Portuguese Schools

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New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 275))

Abstract

Web sites are the face of institutions, but evidence shows that they are frequently overlooked, especially where contents are concerned. The research presented in this paper intended to measure the quality of the data in institutional Web sites of basic and secondary schools. Accordingly, we adopted and adapted a proven measurement approach and carried out a study with a group of teachers from a convenience sample involving basic and secondary schools. Most of the participants in this study stated that the Web sites displayed, completely or partially, most of the thirty three quality attributes, expressing some disappointment with the quality of four attributes only: documentation, interactivity, security and customer support. On the other hand, most of the participants did not express any opinion concerning two of the attributes: novelty and validity.

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  1. Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Carlos Pinto Ferreira, Rua José Batista da Silva s/n, 4480-260, Junqueira – Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Paula Salvador

  2. Pólo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, Universidade de Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

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  1. Universidade de Coimbra & LIACC, Rio Tinto, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Department of Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix . B Tan

  4. Empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

    Karl . A Stroetmann

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Salvador, P., Rocha, Á. (2014). An Assessment of Content Quality in Websites of Basic and Secondary Portuguese Schools. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05951-8_8

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