The influence of surface and deep cues on primary and secondary school students' assessment of relevance in Web menus

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-219

  Rouet, Jean François ^a   Ros, Christine ^a   Goumi, Antonine ^b   Macedo Rouet, Mônica ^b,c   Dinet, Jérôme ^d  

^a National Centre of Scientific Research   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c National Centre for Pedagogical Documentation   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Assessment of relevance; Relevance cues; Web menu; Web search; Website selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650179535     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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