Effectiveness of holistic mental model confrontation in driving conceptual change

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-61

  Gadgil, Soniya ^a   Nokes Malach, Timothy J ^a   Chi, Michelene T H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Conceptual change; Learning; Mental models; Self explanation

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455187970     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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