The effect of self-explanation and prediction on the development of principled understanding of chess in novices

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-205

  de Bruin, Anique B H ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a   Schmidt, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chess; Novices; Self explanation; Skill acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947595611     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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