CRiSP: An Instrument for Assessing Student Perceptions of Classroom Response Systems

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 432-447

  Richardson, Alice M ^a   Dunn, Peter K ^b   McDonald, Christine ^c   Oprescu, Florin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clickers; CRS; Instrument development; Learning; Scale validation; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937521404     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-014-9528-2     Document Type: Article

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