Measuring psychology students' information-seeking skills in a situational judgment test format: Construction and validation of the PIKE-P test

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 220-229

  Rosman, Tom ^a   Mayer, Anne Kathrin ^a   Krampen, Günter ^a  

^a Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information   (Germany)

Author keywords

Declarative knowledge; Information literacy; Information seeking; Procedural knowledge; Situational judgment test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989814372     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: 21512426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000239     Document Type: Article

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