Facilitating learning from technology-enhanced text: Effects of prompted elaborative interrogation

Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 156-166

  Dornisch, Michele M ^a,c   Sperling, Rayne A ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 15 B Davis Schwartz Library   (United States)

Author keywords

Elaborative interrogation; Technology enhanced text; Web based instructional materials in K 16 classrooms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748080139     PISSN: 00220671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOER.99.3.156-166     Document Type: Review

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