Measuring and evaluating early childhood prospective practitioners' attitudes toward computers

Family Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-285

  Sexton, David ^a   King, Nina ^b   Aldridge, Jerry ^c   Goodstadt Killoran, Isabel ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jacksonville State University ^*

Author keywords

Computer attitudes; Preservice education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033464233     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585638     Document Type: Article

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