Exploring the mechanisms through which computers contribute to learning

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-128

  Karasavvidis, Ilias ^a   Pieters, J M ^a   Plomp, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control group; Correlational reasoning; Discourse analysis; Problem solving; Secondary; Spreadsheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037233201     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0266-4909.2002.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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