Data collection on the internet: Evaluation of web-based questionnaires

Studia Psychologica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-88

  Květon, Petr ^a   Jelínek, Martin ^a   Klimusová, Helena ^b   Vobořil, Dalibor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Equivalency; Online questionnaire; Web based administration

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247265453     PISSN: 00393320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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