Charting and manipulating propositions as methods to promote self-explanation in the study of statistics

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 517-538

  Broers, Nick J ^a   Imbos, Tjaart ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual understanding of statistics; Propositional knowledge; Self explanation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744599801     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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