Effects of argumentation on group micro-creativity: Statistical discourse analyses of algebra students' collaborative problem solving

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 382-402

  Chiu, Ming Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; Hierarchical linear modeling; Quantitative discourse analysis; Social interactions; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349088173     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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