Is underestimation less detrimental than overestimation? the impact of experts' beliefs about a layperson's knowledge on learning and question asking

Instructional Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-52

  Wittwer, Jörg ^a,b   Nückles, Matthias ^a   Renkl, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive instruction; Advice giving; Computer mediated communication; Expert layperson communication; Informal learning; Learning from instructional texts; Question asking

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149008030     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-007-9021-x     Document Type: Article

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