Historical perspective taking: A standardized measure for an aspect of students' historical thinking

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 264-270

  Hartmann, Ulrike ^a   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

History education; Perspective taking; Social studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449153839     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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