Goal specificity and learning with a hypermedia program

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 98-108

  Vollmeyer, Regina ^a   Burns, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual space model; Goal specificity; Hypermedia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING;

GOALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEACHING;

EID: 0036364023     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1618-3169.49.2.98     Document Type: Review

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