Technical Problem Solving among 10-Year-Old Students as Related to Science Achievement, Out-of-School Experience, Domain-Specific Control Beliefs, and Attribution Patterns

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 987-1013

  Baumert, Jürgen ^a,c   Evans, Robert H ^b   Geiser, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

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EID: 0006161522     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199811)35:9<987::AID-TEA3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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