Using student interactions to foster rule-diagram mapping during problem solving in an intelligent tutoring system

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 988-1009

  Butcher, Kirsten R ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Diagrams; Intelligent tutoring; Problem solving; Visual interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887557382     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031756     Document Type: Article

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