Using texts in science education: Cognitive processes and knowledge representation

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5977, 2010, Pages 453-456

  Van Den Broek, Paul ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LEARNING; OPTIMIZATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TEACHING;

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SKILL; TEACHING; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LEARNING; READING; SCIENCE;

EID: 77951551071     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1182594     Document Type: Review

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