Learning radiological appearances of diseases: Does comparison help?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-97

  Kok, Ellen M ^a   de Bruin, Anique B H ^a,b   Robben, Simon G F ^c   van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparison; Education; Radiology; Visual diagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868635007     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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