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Direct linkSanchez, Emilio; Garcia-Rodicio, Hector; Acuna, Santiago R. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
Effective instructional explanations help the students to construct coherent mental representations. To do so, one condition is that they must be tailored to students' needs. It is hypothesized that explanations are more helpful if they also explicitly aid the students to detect problems in their mental representations, as this provokes an impasse…
Descriptors: Plate Tectonics, Cognitive Processes, Instruction, Student Needs
