Perfectionism in students: Implications in the instruction of statistics

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Seipel, Scott J ^a   Apigian, Charles H ^a  

^a Middle Tennesee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Business statistics; Introductory statistics course; Perfectionism; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244453554     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2005.11910557     Document Type: Article

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