Science on the web: Secondary school students' navigation patterns and preferred pages' characteristics

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 246-265

  Dimopoulos, Kostas ^a   Asimakopoulos, Apostolos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloning; Navigation patterns; Preferred pages' characteristics; Secondary students; Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955052809     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-009-9197-8     Document Type: Article

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