How much assistance is helpful to students in discovery learning?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5794 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 391-404

  Borek, Alexander ^a,b   McLaren, Bruce M ^b,c   Karabinos, Michael ^b   Yaron, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assistance dilemma; Chemistry learning; Inquiry learning; Intelligent tutoring

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY; COLLEGE STUDENTS; DISCOVERY LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INQUIRY LEARNING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING; LEARNING APPROACH; LEARNING SCIENCE; METACOGNITIVE SKILLS;

E-LEARNING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70450239939     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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