Why graphic organizers facilitate search processes: Fewer words or computationally efficient indexing?

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 166-180

  Robinson, Daniel H ^a   Skinner, Christopher H ^a  

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EID: 0030122118     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ceps.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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