The effect of competition and contextualized advisement on the transfer of mathematics skills in a computer-based instructional simulation game

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 23-41

  Van Eck, Richard ^a   Dempsey, Jack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 0036433212     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02505023     Document Type: Article

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