Eliciting Self-Explanations Improves Understanding
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Summary
It is shown that self-explanation can also be facilitative when it is explicitly promoted, in the context of learning declarative knowledge from an expository text, and three processing characteristics of self-explaining are considered as reasons for the gains in deeper understanding.
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- article
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- 1994-07-01
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- 2,545
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Keywords
Psychology, Cognitive psychology
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