Rates of Missing Responses in Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Versus Paper Assessments.
This article describes rates of missing item responses in personal digital assistant (PDA) assessments as compared to paper assessments. Data come from the evaluation of a classroom-based leisure, life skills, and sexuality education program delivered to high school students in Cape Town, South Afri...
| Published in: | Evaluation Review Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 257 - 273 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
June 2008
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