Allocation of Attention in Classroom Environments: Consequences for Learning

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2806-2811

  Godwin, Karrie E ^a   Fisher, Anna V ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Classroom Environment; Learning; Off Task Behavior

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; ALLOCATION OF ATTENTIONS; ATTENTION; CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT; CONDITION; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; OFF-TASK BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISTRACTIONS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

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