Acquisition of procedures: The effects of example elaborations and active learning exercises

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 16, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 139-153

  Catrambone, Richard ^a   Yuasa, Mashiho ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruction design; Procedure learning; SQL

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646033737     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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