Multimedia presentations in educational measurement and statistics: Design considerations and instructional approaches

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sklar, Jeffrey C ^a   Zwick, Rebecca ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Pedagogy; Test scores; Web based

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950654851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2009.11889539     Document Type: Article

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