The effect of multiple scaffolding tools on students' understanding, consideration of different perspectives, and misconceptions of a complex problem

Computers and Education

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 360-370

  Zydney, Janet Mannheimer ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive learning environments; Interdisciplinary projects; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY THEORY; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; COMPUTER BASED TOOLS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; HIGH SCHOOL; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT; MULTIMEDIA LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES;

HAND TOOLS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 71549127748     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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