Improved effectiveness of cueing by self-explanations when learning from a complex animation

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-194

  De Koning, Björn B ^a   Tabbers, Huib K ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a   Paas, Fred ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 79953038080     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1661     Document Type: Article

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