Understanding Usage of an Internet Based Information Resource for Teachers: The Assessment Resource Banks

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 237-257

  Gilmore, Alison ^a   Hattie, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assessment; Information use; Web based usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035742962     PISSN: 00288276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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