Altering the modality of instructions to facilitate imagination: Interactions between the modality and imagination effects

Instructional Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-365

  Tindall Ford, Sharon ^a   Sweller, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coginitive load theory; Imagination effect; Modality effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745764159     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-005-6075-5     Document Type: Article

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