The roles of personality and class size in student attitudes toward individual response technology

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2792-2798

  Hunsinger, Matthew ^a   Poirier, Christopher R ^b   Feldman, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five personality factors; College students' attitudes; Individual response technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

BIG FIVE PERSONALITY FACTORS; CLASSROOM LEARNING; COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES; INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE TECHNOLOGY; STUDENT ATTITUDES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 51349133578     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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