The worked-example effect: Not an artefact of lousy control conditions

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-266

  Schwonke, Rolf ^a   Renkl, Alexander ^a   Krieg, Carmen ^a   Wittwer, Jörg ^b   Aleven, Vincent ^c   Salden, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive Tutors; Example based learning; Intelligent tutoring systems; Problem solving; Tutoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

COGNITIVE TUTORS; EXAMPLE-BASED LEARNING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM-SOLVING; TUTORING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 59049089873     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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