Topic knowledge, text coherence, and interest: How they interact in learning from instructional texts

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-148

  Boscolo, Pietro ^a   Mason, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning from text; Text coherence; Topic interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037413078     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220970309602060     Document Type: Article

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