Students' use of Web literacy skills and strategies: Searching, reading and evaluating Web information

Information Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kuiper, Els ^a   Volman, Monique ^a   Terwel, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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