Enhancing skill in constructing scientific explanations using a structured argumentation scaffold in scientific inquiry

Computers and Education

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-59

  Hsu, Chih Chao ^a   Chiu, Chiung Hui ^b   Lin, Chun Hsu ^b   Wang, Tzone I ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Elementary education; Interactive learning environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; QUERY PROCESSING; SCAFFOLDS;

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CRITICAL VARIABLES; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84943251477     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.09.009     Document Type: Article

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