VModel: A visual qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 820-827

  Forbus, Kenneth D ^a   Carney, Karen ^a   Sherin, Bruce L ^a   Ureel II, Leo C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULA; FEEDBACK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; STUDENTS;

ARTICULATION MODELS; REASONING; VISUAL REPRESENTATION LANGUAGES; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 9444272791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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