Is adaptation to task complexity really beneficial for performance?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 281-289

  Pieschl, Stephanie ^a   Stahl, Elmar ^b   Murray, Tom ^c   Bromme, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Hypertext; Metacognition; Performance; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859983485     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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