On-line synchronous scientific argumentation learning: Nurturing students' argumentation ability and conceptual change in science context

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 586-602

  Yeh, Kuan Hue ^a   She, Hsiao Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperative collaborative learning; Improving classroom teaching; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL CHANGE; CONTROL GROUPS; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; LEARNING PROGRAMS; SCIENCE LEARNING;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953134618     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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