The relation between prior knowledge and students' collaborative discovery learning processes

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 264-282

  Gijlers, Hannie ^a   De Jong, Ton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION; GRAPH THEORY; KINEMATICS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE DISCOVERY LEARNING; DISCOVERY LEARNING; HETEROGENOUS DYADS; SCAFFOLD INFORMATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 16244415817     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20056     Document Type: Article

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