Effects of gender and collaboration on college students’ performance on a piagetian spatial task

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-35

  Golbeck, Susan L ^a   Sinagra, Karen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Horizontality; Piagetian theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034257493     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220970009600647     Document Type: Article

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