Investigation of High School Students' Online Science Information Searching Performance: The Role of Implicit and Explicit Strategies

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 246-254

  Tsai, Meng Jung ^a   Hsu, Chung Yuan ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information problem solving; Online search strategies; Pedagogical issues; Science learning; Web search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858439759     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-011-9307-2     Document Type: Article

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