Concrete and abstract visualizations in history learning tasks

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 371-387

  Prangsma, Maaike E ^a   van Boxtel, Carla A M ^a   Kanselaar, Gellof ^b   Kirschner, Paul A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; THINKING; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); THINKING; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 67650166192     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709908X379341     Document Type: Article

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