Paper Title
Online-Searching Behaviors in Early Childhood Education: A Comparison of Pre- and In-Service Teachers' Searching Strategies

Abstract
The aim of this study was to explore teachers’ searching strategies in web-based contexts, with a view to improving early childhood practices and teacher education. A comparison of the searching strategies by using online educational resources of pre-service teachers and in-service teachers showed that in-service teachers adopted a deeper approach orientation to online-searching and had stronger surface motivations than the pre-service teachers. In addition, the results showed that Internet experience did not have a significant positive effect on the pre-service teachers, while the in-service teachers placed greater emphasis on spending more time on deep approach orientation to web-searching. The findings of this study may have implications for researchers and university administrators, suggesting that early childhood teacher education programs would be best to equip pre-service teachers with appropriate learning approaches for Internet tasks. Spending more time on the Internet may ensure that in-service teachers show more deep approach orientation to web-searching, which may strengthen their preparation of teaching materials. Keywords - Early childhood, online-searching, searching strategy, teachers