The effects of teaching notetaking strategies on elementary students' science learning

Instructional Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-201

  Lee, Pai Lin ^a   Lan, William ^b   Hamman, Douglas ^b   Hendricks, Bret ^b  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective learning; Information process model; Learning strategy; Notetaking; Science education; Strategy instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149193105     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-007-9027-4     Document Type: Article

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