Assessing information literacy programmes using information search tasks

Journal of Information Literacy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-20

  Leichner, Nikolas ^a   Peter, Johannes ^a   Mayer, Anne Kathrin ^a   Krampen, Günter ^a  

^a Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Information literacy assessment; Information seeking behaviour; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905917335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17505968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11645/8.1.1870     Document Type: Article

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