Exploring the structural relationships between high school students' Internet-specific epistemic beliefs and their utilization of online academic help seeking

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 391-400

  Lee, Wen Ching ^a   Chiu, Yen Lin ^b   Liang, Jyh Chong ^b   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a Department of Measurement and Statistics   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Internet specific epistemic beliefs; Online academic help seeking

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; EDUCATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSES (CFA); EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS (EFA); HELP SEEKING; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; INTERNET-SPECIFIC EPISTEMIC BELIEFS; ONLINE INFORMATION SEARCHING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; ON-LINE INFORMATION;

INTERNET;

EID: 84899639820     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.069     Document Type: Article

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