The effects of levels of elaboration on learners' strategic processing of text

Instructional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-26

  Dornisch, Michele ^a   Sperling, Rayne A ^b   Zeruth, Jill A ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Elaboration; Elaborative interrogation; Learning strategies; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650763459     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9111-z     Document Type: Article

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