An information processing model of undergraduate electronic database information retrieval

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-347

  Macpherson, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD-ROM; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; TEACHING;

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT BASED TEACHING; INFORMATION LITERACY; UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRONIC DATABASE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 1542335732     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10385     Document Type: Article

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