Students’ evaluation strategies in a Web research task: Are they sensitive to relevance and reliability?

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 134-157

  Rodicio, Héctor García ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation strategies; Information problem solving; Relevance; Trustworthiness; Web literacy; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937861341     PISSN: 10421726     EISSN: 18671233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12528-015-9098-1     Document Type: Article

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