Impacts of learning inventive problem-solving principles: Students' transition from systematic searching to heuristic problem solving

Instructional Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 657-679

  Barak, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creativity; Heuristics; Problem solving; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879204247     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-012-9250-5     Document Type: Article

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