Treffer: Affordances and challenges of computational tools for supporting modeling and simulation practices.

ABSTRACT This mixed-methods sequential explanatory design investigates disciplinary learning gains when engaging in modeling and simulation processes following a programming or a configuring approach. It also investigates the affordances and challenges that students encountered when engaged in these two approaches to modeling and simulation. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 25:352-375, 2017; View this article online at ; DOI [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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