The effects of instructional intervention on improving proportional, probabilistic, and correlational reasoning skills among undergraduate education majors

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 981-995

  Vass, E ^a   Schiller, D ^a   Nappi, A J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0042223808     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2736(200011)37:9<981::AID-TEA7>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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