A comparison between drill-based and game-based typing software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5940 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 48-58

  Lin, Chun Hung ^a   Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted instruction; Drill based typing software; Game based typing software; Typing speed

Indexed keywords

COMMON STRATEGY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CONTROL GROUPS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DESIGN APPROACHES; DESIGN SOFTWARES; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; SOFTWARE GAMES; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS; TYPING SPEED;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DESIGN; DRILLS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPEED; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77949382111     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11245-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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