Investigations into the Effects of Hint Reading Time and Hint Type in a Digital Mathematics Game Through Response Time Decomposition
- Award ID(s):
- 2142984
- PAR ID:
- 10596299
- Publisher / Repository:
- ISLS Repository
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings
- ISSN:
- 3079-9929
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 83 to 90
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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