Dynamic testing with tangible electronics: Measuring children's change in strategy use with a series completion task

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 579-605

  Resing, Wilma C M ^a   Elliott, Julian G ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFORCEMENT; TEACHING;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80455129566     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: 20448279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/2044-8279.002006     Document Type: Article

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