Reading about energy: The effects of text structure in science learning and conceptual change

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-356

  Diakidoy, Irene Anna N ^a   Kendeou, Panayiota ^b   Ioannides, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Learning from text; Refutation text; Science learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038008535     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-476X(02)00039-5     Document Type: Article

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