Components of reading comprehension and scholastic achievement

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 291-301

  Meneghetti, Chiara ^a   Carretti, Barbara ^a   De Beni, Rossana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Reading comprehension; Scholastic achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847762933     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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