Computer literacy of Turkish preservice teachers in different teacher training programs

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-21

  Özsevgeç, Tuncay ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computer; Computer literacy; Computer skills; Teacher education; Teacher preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952183950     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12564-010-9123-z     Document Type: Article

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