Tutor learning: The role of explaining and responding to questions

Instructional Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-350

  Roscoe, Rod D ^a   Chi, Michelene T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Explanations; Metacognition; Peer tutoring; Questions; Tutor learning; Tutorial dialogue; Verbal data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449098259     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-007-9034-5     Document Type: Article

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