Understanding students' difficulties in terms of coupled epistemological and affective dynamics

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gupta, Ayush ^a   Danielak, Brian A ^b   Elby, Andrew ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Case study; Cognitive models; Epistemology; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; CASE STUDY; COGNITIVE MODEL; EPISTEMOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

MODELS; RESEARCH; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 78751515261     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2010.5673256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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