The effect of external representation on constructing computer models of complex phenomena

Instructional Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 395-418

  Löhner, Simone ^a   Van Joolingen, Wouter R ^a   Savelsbergh, Elwin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer modeling; External representations; Inquiry learning; Simulation based environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346494260     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025746813683     Document Type: Article

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