The use of adjunct displays to facilitate comprehension of causal relationships in expository text

Instructional Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-86

  McCrudden, Matthew T ^a   Schraw, Gregory ^b   Lehman, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjunct displays; Causal relationships; Expository text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849154116     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-007-9036-3     Document Type: Article

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