Field dependence-independence and instructional-design effects on learners' performance with a computer-modeling tool

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1355-1366

  Angeli, Charoula ^a   Valanides, Nicos ^a   Kirschner, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Complex systems; Field dependence independence; Modeling software; Split attention effect

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOAD; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; MODELING SOFTWARE; SPLIT-ATTENTION EFFECT;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATERIALS; STUDENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 69549124009     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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