Learning from abstract and contextualized representations: The effect of verbal guidance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2239-2247

  Johnson, Amy M ^a   Butcher, Kirsten R ^b   Ozogul, Gamze ^a   Reisslein, Martin ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention guidance; Multiple external representations; Problem solving; Text diagram integration; Visual representations

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING; DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATIONS; INTEGRATING INFORMATION; MULTIPLE EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84878782331     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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