The role of conceptual models in formal software training

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 242 - 253

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-959-9

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Conrad Shayo	Information and Decision Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Lorne Olfman	Department of Information Science, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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