Students' usability evaluation of a Web-based tutorial program for college biology problem solving.
The understanding of core concepts and processes of science in solving problems is important to successful learning in biology. We have designed and developed a Web-based, self-directed tutorial program, SOLVEIT, that provides various scaffolds (e.g., prompts, expert models, visual guidance) to help...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 362 - 378 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2015
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