The characteristics of gifted students' ecology inquiries in ubiquitous learning activities

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-63

  Hung, Pi Hsia ^a   Hwang, Gwo Jen ^b   Lin, I Hua ^a   Su, I Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Gifted students; Meta cognitive strategies; Perceived usefulness; Science inquiry; Ubiquitous learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869752431     PISSN: 1746725X     EISSN: 17467268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2012.046882     Document Type: Article

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