How indirect supportive digital help during and after solving physics problems can improve problem-solving abilities

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-50

  Pol, Henk J ^a   Harskamp, Egbert G ^a   Suhre, Cor J M ^a   Goedhart, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Applications in subject areas; Architectures for educational technology systems; Evaluation of CAL systems; Secondary education; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS IN SUBJECT AREAS; ARCHITECTURES FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 64449083865     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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