High school students' information seeking and use for class projects

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1503-1517

  Chung, Jin Soo ^a   Neuman, Delia ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ABILITIES; COMPARATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH JOURNALS;

DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 34547577114     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20637     Document Type: Article

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