The effects of decomposition quality and multiple forms of information on novices’ understanding of a domain from a conceptual model

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 748-802

  Burton Jones, Andrew ^a   Meso, Peter N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Decomposition quality; Form of information; Novice understanding

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DECOMPOSITION QUALITY; FORM OF INFORMATION; LEARN+; NOVICE UNDERSTANDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84961367545     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00179     Document Type: Article

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