Mutually informative measures of knowledge: Concept maps plus problem sorts in statistics

Educational Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-71

  Lavigne, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 17644390285     PISSN: 10627197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326977ea1001_3     Document Type: Article

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