Perceived credibility of Internet encyclopedias

Computers and Education

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 659-667

  Kubiszewski, Ida ^a   Noordewier, Thomas ^b   Costanza, Robert ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Encyclopedia Britannica; Encyclopedia of Earth; Experiment; Internet encyclopedia; Likelihood model; Perceived credibility; Survey; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARTH; LIKELIHOOD MODEL; PERCEIVED CREDIBILITY; WIKIPEDIA;

EXPERIMENTS; INTERNET; SURVEYS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 78650169900     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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