Children's conceptual structures of science categories and the design of web directories

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1303-1313

  Bilal, Dania ^a   Wang, Peiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL MAPS; SCIENCE CATEGORIES; WEB DIRECTORIES;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAPS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 27744584152     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20216     Document Type: Article

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