Who reasons well? Two studies of informal reasoning among children of different grade, ability, and knowledge levels

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-178

  Means, Mary L ^b   Voss, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000852649     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690xci1402_1     Document Type: Article

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