Epistemic actions in science education

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5248 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 202-215

  Kastens, Kim A ^a,b   Liben, Lynn S ^c   Agrawal, Shruti ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic actions; Science education; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE MODELS; EPISTEMIC ACTIONS; FIELD NOTES; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULL SCALES; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRIOR WORKS; RE-ORDERS; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SCIENCE EDUCATIONS; SKETCH MAPS; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 56549098456     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87601-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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