Designing training for temporal and adaptive transfer: A comparative evaluation of three training methods for process control tasks

Journal of Educational Computing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-353

  Kluge, Annette ^a   Sauer, Juergen ^b   Burkolter, Dina ^a   Ritzmann, Sandrina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c University of St Gaffen   (Germany)

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EID: 78149234200     PISSN: 07356331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/EC.43.3.d     Document Type: Article

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