Comparing pedagogical approaches for the acquisition and long-term robustness of the control of variables strategy

Learning in the Disciplines: ICLS 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 1024-1031

  Pedro, Michael A Sao ^a   Gobert, Janice D ^a   Raziuddin, Juelaila J ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOVERY LEARNING; PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH; ROBUST LEARNING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84880535955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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