How does educational stage affect the way people find information? In previous research using the Digital Visitors & Residents (V&R) framework for semi-structured interviews, context was a factor in how individuals behaved. This study of 145 online, open-ended surveys examines the impact that one's V&R educational stage has on the likelihood of attending to digital and human sources across four contexts. These contexts vary according to whether the search was professional or personal and successful or struggled. The impact of educational stage differs based on context. In some contexts, people at higher educational stages are more likely to attend to digital sources and less likely to attend to human sources. In other contexts, there is no statistically significant difference (p < 0.10) among educational stages. These findings provide support for previous V&R research, while also demonstrating that online surveys can be used to supplement and balance the data collected from semi-structured interviews.

教育阶段如何影响人们查找信息的方式？在先前使用“数字访客和居民（V＆R）”框架进行半结构化访谈的研究中，环境是个人行为方式的一个因素。这项针对145个在线开放式调查的研究考察了V＆R教育阶段对在四种情况下使用数字和人力资源的可能性的影响。这些上下文根据搜索是专业的还是个人的，成功的还是挣扎的而有所不同。教育阶段的影响因环境而异。在某些情况下，处于高等教育阶段的人们更可能使用数字资源，而不太可能使用人力资源。在其他情况下，没有统计学上的显着差异（p <0.10）。这些发现为以前的V＆R研究提供了支持，同时也证明了在线调查可用于补充和平衡从半结构化访谈中收集的数据。