Teacher question and student response with regard to cognition and language use

Instructional Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 857-874

  Lee, Youngju ^a,b   Kinzie, Mable B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Open ended question; Pre K science activity; Question type; Student response; Teacher questioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867893882     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-011-9193-2     Document Type: Article

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