Fostering students' evaluation behaviour while searching the internet

Instructional Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-146

  Walraven, Amber ^a,b   Brand Gruwel, Saskia ^b   Boshuizen, Henny P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Information; Information skills; Internet; Secondary education; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872320917     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-012-9221-x     Document Type: Article

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