Collaboration on the basis of complementary domain knowledge: Observed dialogue structures and their relation to learning success

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-83

  Kneser, Cornelia ^a   Ploetzner, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Discourse analysis; High school students; Physics; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042871369     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(00)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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