Effects of reflection prompts on learning outcomes and learning behaviour in statistics education

Learning Environments Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-223

  Stark, Robin ^a   Krause, Ulrike Marie ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Example based learning; Learning behaviour; Metacognition; Reflection prompts; Situated learning; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349088981     PISSN: 13871579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-009-9063-x     Document Type: Article

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