Does contextualized computing education help?

ACM Inroads

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 4-6

  Guzdial, Mark ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Context; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952914556     PISSN: 21532184     EISSN: 21532192     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1869746.1869747     Document Type: Review

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