Students Learn Equally Well From Digital as From Paperbound Texts

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 278-281

  Taylor, Annette Kujawski ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

digital text; reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355135429     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628311421330     Document Type: Review

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