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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
Volume 43, 2023 - Issue 8
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Research Articles

The effect of worked examples on learning solution steps and knowledge transfer

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Pages 914-928 | Received 03 Jan 2023, Accepted 17 Oct 2023, Published online: 30 Oct 2023

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