Two instructional aids to optimise processing and learning from instructional explanations

Instructional Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-228

  Roelle, Julian ^a   Berthold, Kirsten ^a   Renkl, Alexander ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Focused processing; Instructional explanations; Prompts; Remedial explanations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875688174     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: 15731952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-013-9277-2     Document Type: Article

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