Increasing the transfer of simulation technology from R&D into school settings: An approach to evaluation from overarching vision to individual artifact in education

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 245-267

  Blasi, Laura ^a   Alfonso, Berta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Design sciences; Evaluation; Four level assessment; ISAGA '05; Microscope; NASA Kennedy Space Center; Scanning electron microscope (SEM); Science; Simulation; Transfer; Usability; Virtual Lab

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646434498     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878105284449     Document Type: Article

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