Teaching and learning in information retrieval

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-226

  Fernández Luna, Juan M ^a   Huete, Juan F ^a   MacFarlane, Andrew ^b   Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Curricula; Educational assessment; Information retrieval; Learning; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949105348     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-009-9089-9     Document Type: Article

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