Do specific relevance instructions promote transfer appropriate processing?

Instructional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 865-879

  McCrudden, Matthew T ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Reading comprehension; Relevance instructions; Text processing; Transfer appropriate processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054020094     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-010-9158-x     Document Type: Article

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