Applause as an achievement-based reward during a computerised self-assessment test

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 489-504

  Moridis, Christos N ^a   Economides, Anastasios A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL STATE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GENDER DIFFERENCES; LEARNING MATERIALS; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

RATING; STUDENTS;

STATE FEEDBACK;

EID: 84859886046     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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