The land of confusion? High school students and their use of the World Wide Web for research

Research Strategies

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-163

  Lorenzen, Michael ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High school students; Information literacy; Perry's Scheme of Student Development; Web evaluation; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036341067     PISSN: 07343310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-3310(02)00074-5     Document Type: Article

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