Enhancing academic performance by strengthening class-inclusion reasoning

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 603-613

  Pasnak, Robert ^a   Cooke, Willa D ^a   Hendricks, Charlene ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Institute of Child Health and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Achievement; Class inclusion; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33751564822     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JRLP.140.6.603-613     Document Type: Article

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