Visual factors that significantly impact academic performance

Optometry

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-49

  Maples, W C ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Accommodation; Binocularity; Children; Education; Learning; Minorities; Race; Testing

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PREDICTION; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; ACCOMMODATION; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 0037268321     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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