Measurement estimation: Learning to map the route from number to quantity and back

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 413-449

  Joram, Elana ^c   Subrahmanyam, Kaveri ^a   Gelman, Rochel ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 0032245862     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00346543068004413     Document Type: Article

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