Teaching students to recognize structural similarities between statistics word problems

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 325-342

  Quilici, Jill L ^a   Mayer, Richard E ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHI SQUARE TEST; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 1042263295     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.796     Document Type: Article

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