Exploring evidence of reflective thinking in student artifacts of blogging-mapping tool: A design-based research approach

Instructional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 695-719

  Xie, Ying ^a   Sharma, Priya ^b  

^a LEWIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Concept mapping; Reflection; Reflective thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961165827     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-010-9149-y     Document Type: Article

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