Improving students' proportional thinking using schema-based instruction

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 731-745

  Jitendra, Asha K ^a   Star, Jon R ^b   Rodriguez, Michael ^a   Lindell, Mary ^a   Someki, Fumio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Middle school students; Ratio and proportion; Schema based instruction; Word problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051808059     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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