Evaluating attitudes, skill, and performance in a learning-enhanced quantitative methods course: A structural modeling approach

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 413-430

  Harlow, Lisa L ^a   Burkholder, Gary J ^b   Morrow, Jennifer A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2642549505     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328007SEM0903_6     Document Type: Article

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