Learning by Doing Versus Learning by Viewing: Three Experimental Comparisons of Learner-Generated Versus Author-Provided Graphic Organizers

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 808-820

  Stull, Andrew T ^a   Mayer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive load; generative processes; graphic organizer; reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049012837     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.99.4.808     Document Type: Article

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