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Edyburn, Dave L. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1988
Thirty junior high students with and without learning disabilities used three forms of an encyclopedia--printed, electronic with menus, and electronic with commands. Students without disabilities were more successful in retrieval. Both groups were more successful at simple versus complex tasks, assigned versus self-selected tasks, and when using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Encyclopedias, Information Retrieval, Intermode Differences
