Anatomy of student models in adaptive learning systems: A systematic literature review of individual differences from 2001 to 2013

Journal of Educational Computing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 459-489

  Nakic, Jelena ^a   Granic, Andrina ^a   Glavinic, Vlado ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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EID: 84926384596     PISSN: 07356331     EISSN: 15414140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/EC.51.4.e     Document Type: Article

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