Pre-service teachers critically evaluate scientific information on the World Wide Web: What makes information believable?

Computers in the Schools

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 7-18

  Iding, Marie ^a   Klemm, E Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Collaboration; Critical evaluation; Education; Pre service teachers; Science; Web; Web site evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644564913     PISSN: 07380569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J025v22n01_02     Document Type: Article

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