Generalizing screen inferiority - does the medium, screen versus paper, affect performance even with brief tasks?

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 15-33

  Sidi, Yael ^a   Ophir, Yael ^a   Ackerman, Rakefet ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disfluency; Human computer interaction; Meta reasoning; Metacognitive monitoring; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947583745     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-015-9150-6     Document Type: Article

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