The relation between students' epistemological understanding of computer models and their cognitive processing on a modelling task

International Journal of Science Education

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1205-1229

  Sins, Patrick H M ^a   Savelsbergh, Elwin R ^a   van Joolingen, Wouter R ^b   van Hout Wolters, Bernadette H A M ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 70449563212     PISSN: 09500693     EISSN: 14645289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500690802192181     Document Type: Article

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