Computer anxiety in students: Should computer-based assessment be used at all?

Computer-assisted Assessment of Students

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 47-54

  Brosnan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

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