Long-term benefits of direct instruction with reification for learning the control of variables strategy

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

Volumn 6095 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 257-259

  Sao Pedro, Michael A ^a   Gobert, Janice D ^a   Raziuddin, Juelaila J ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

microworlds; science education; virtual instruction

Indexed keywords

DISCOVERY LEARNING; LONG-TERM RETENTION; MICROWORLDS; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; ROBUST LEARNING; SCIENCE EDUCATION; VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

TEACHING;

EID: 77955885266     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13437-1_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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