Students' reasoning during modeling in an inquiry learning environment

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 441-461

  Löhner, Simone ^a   Van Joolingen, Wouter R ^a,c   Savelsbergh, Elwin R ^a,b   Van Hout Wolters, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION; INQUIRY LEARNING; INQUIRY MODELING; TEXTUAL REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 11144322067     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.10.037     Document Type: Article

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