Teaching domain-specific skills before peer assessment skills is superior to teaching them simultaneously

Educational Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 541-557

  van Zundert, M J ^a   Konings K D ^a   Sluijsmans, D M A ^a   van Merrienboer J J G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive load; domain specific; instruction; peer assessment; task complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868284468     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: 14653400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2012.654920     Document Type: Article

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