Time to completion of web-based physics problems with tutoring

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-113

  Warnakulasooriya, Rasil ^a,c   Palazzo, David J ^a   Pritchard, David E ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Effective Educational Technologies

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hints; Humans; Logarithmic time; Physics; Problem solving; Sigmoidal functions; Time to completion; Web based problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547549809     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2007.70-06     Document Type: Article

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