Learning from Worked-Out Examples: The Effects of Example Variability and Elicited Self-Explanations

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 90-108

  Renkl, Alexander ^a   Stark, Robin ^b   Gruber, Hans ^b   Mandl, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0002089226     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ceps.1997.0959     Document Type: Article

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