Process model comprehension: The effects of cognitive abilities, learning style, and strategy

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 199-222

  Recker, Jan ^a   Reijers, Hajo A ^b   van de Wouw, Sander G ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c EDF Energy   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Experiment; Learning strategy; Learning style; Model comprehension; Multimedia theory of learning; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

COGNITIVE ABILITY; LEARNING STRATEGY; LEARNING STYLE; PROCESS MODELING; THEORY OF LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893068369     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03409     Document Type: Article

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