The consistency effect depends on markedness in less successful but not successful problem solvers: An eye movement study in primary school children

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-66

  van der Schoot, Menno ^a   Bakker Arkema, Annemieke H ^b   Horsley, Tako M ^a   van Lieshout, Ernest C D M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consistency effect; Eye movements; Markedness; Word problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349141940     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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