Achievement in chemistry problem-solving as a function of the mobility-fixity dimension

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 95, Issue 3 PART 1, 2002, Pages 914-924

  Stamovlasis, Dimitrios ^b   Kousathana, Margarita ^b   Angelopoulos, Vasileios ^b   Tsaparlis, Georgios ^a   Niaz, Mansoor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; CHEMISTRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GREECE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036988113     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.95.3.914     Document Type: Article

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