Factor structure stability of the California critical thinking disposition inventory across sex and various students' majors

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 3 PART II, 1997, Pages 1211-1228

  Walsh, Catherine M ^a   Hardy, Robert C ^a  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2342424715     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.3f.1211     Document Type: Article

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