Toward large scale assessment of information and communication technology literacy: Implementation considerations for the ETS ICT literacy instrument

Reference Services Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-20

  Somerville, Mary ^a   Lampert, Lynn D ^b   Dabbour, Katherine S ^b   Harlan, Sallie ^c   Schader, Barbara ^c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Communication technologies; Educational tests; Information literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947620011     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320710729337     Document Type: Article

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