Effects of Objects' “Embodiment” on the Acquisition of Problem-Solving Skills through Practice or Video-based Modeling Example Study

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3621-3626

  van Gog, Tamara ^a   Post, Lysanne S ^a   ten Napel, Robyn J ^a   Deijkers, Lian ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

embodiment; example study; problem solving

Indexed keywords

BASED MODELLING; EMBODIMENT; EXAMPLE STUDY; LEARNING PHASIS; MAIN EFFECT; PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS; PROBLEM-SOLVING; RETENTION TESTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84985998694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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