Participants at Your Fingertips: Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to Increase Student–Faculty Collaborative Research

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 245-251

  Johnson, Dan R ^a   Borden, Lauren A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

internet data collection; online; research skills; student research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869766805     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628312456615     Document Type: Article

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