Abilities and skill acquisition: A latent growth curve approach

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 303-319

  Voelkle, Manuel C ^a   Wittmann, Werner W ^a   Ackerman, Phillip L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abilities; Latent growth curve modeling; Skill acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847745113     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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