Hypermedia exploration stimulates multiperspective reasoning in elementary school children with high working memory capacity: A tablet computer study

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 273-283

  Kornmann, Jessica ^a,b   Kammerer, Yvonne ^a   Zettler, Ingo ^b,c   Trautwein, Ulrich ^b   Gerjets, Peter ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility theory; Elementary school children; Multiperspective hypermedia environment; Multiperspective reasoning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994032222     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.041     Document Type: Article

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