Writing learning journals: Instructional support to overcome learning-strategy deficits

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-29

  Hübner, Sandra ^a   Nückles, Matthias ^b   Renkl, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning journals; Prompts; Self regulated learning; Strategy deficits; Writing to learn

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449640496     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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