Differential transfer of learning: Effects of instruction in Descriptive Geometry on spatial test performance

Journal for Geometry and Graphics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-84

  Gittler, Georg ^a   Glück, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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