Exploring the impact of animation-based questionnaire on conducting a web-based educational survey and its association with vividness of respondents' visual images

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Chien, Yu Ta ^b   Chang, Chun Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SCIENCE LEARNING; TEXTUAL FORMAT; VISUAL IMAGE; VISUAL IMAGERY;

ANIMATION; INNOVATION; STUDENTS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84859884889     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01287.x     Document Type: Article

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