Integrating Cognitive Science and Technology Improves Learning in a STEM Classroom

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 331-340

  Butler, Andrew C ^a   Marsh, Elizabeth J ^a   Slavinsky, J P ^b   Baraniuk, Richard G ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Feedback; Retrieval practice; Spacing; Technology; Transfer of learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899918399     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-014-9256-4     Document Type: Article

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