The effect of causal diagrams on text learning

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-388

  McCrudden, Matthew T ^a   Schraw, Gregory ^a   Lehman, Stephen ^b   Poliquin, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal diagram; Causal relationships; Text comprehension; Visual spatial display

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249688616     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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