Developing an Internet Attitude Scale for high school students

Computers and Education

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-51

  Tsai, Chin Chung ^a   Lin, Sunny S J ^a   Tsai, Meng Jung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gender studies; Internet attitudes; Secondary education; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035427359     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1315(01)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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