Science text comprehension: Drawing, main idea selection, and summarizing as learning strategies

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-26

  Leopold, Claudia ^a   Leutner, Detlev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drawing activity; Learning strategies; Summarization; Text comprehension; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455162424     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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