Uncovering the effect of text structure in learning from a science text: An eye-tracking study

Instructional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 581-601

  Ariasi, Nicola ^a   Mason, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Eye movements; Eye tracking; Learning from text; Refutational text; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961169041     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-010-9142-5     Document Type: Article

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