Cognitive Processes and Information Literacy: Some Initial Results From a Survey of Business Students' Learning Activities

Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 181-233

  Skipton, Michael D ^a   Bail, Jeannie ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

business education; business information literacy; cognitive processes; critical thinking; higher education; information literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903626201     PISSN: 08963568     EISSN: 15470644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2014.915080     Document Type: Article

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