What levels of guidance promote engaged exploration with interactive simulations?

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1064, Issue , 2008, Pages 59-62

  Adams, Wendy K ^a   Paulson, Archie ^a   Wieman, Carl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Engagement; Learning; Mental framework; Physics education research; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049105325     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3021273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. A sample transcript can be found at http://phet.colorado.edu/phet-dist/ publications/PERCinttranscript.html