The effect of spreadsheet and dynamic geometry software on the achievement and self-efficacy of 7th-grade students

Educational Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-350

  Isiksal, Mine ^a   Askar, Petek ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autograph based instruction; Computer self efficacy; Mathematics achievement; Mathematics self efficacy; Spreadsheet based instruction; Traditional based instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744493489     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880500287815     Document Type: Article

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