Conditions and effects of example elaboration

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-60

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elaboration profile; Elaboration training; Example elaboration; Interest; Mental effort; Prior knowledge; Tolerance of ambiguity; Transfer performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002161151     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(01)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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