Strategic evaluation of the impacts on learning of educational technologies: Exploring some of the issues for evaluators and future evaluation audiences

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-250

  Passey, Don ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audience; Educational technologies; Evaluation outcomes; School level evaluation; Strategic evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142768822     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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