Effects of studying sequences of process-oriented and product-oriented worked examples on troubleshooting transfer efficiency

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 211-222

  van Gog, Tamara ^a   Paas, Fred ^a,b   van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Problem solving; Transfer; Worked examples

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049138852     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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