Beyond control of variables: What needs to develop to achieve skilled scientific thinking?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-451

  Kuhn, Deanna ^a   Iordanou, Kalypso ^a   Pease, Maria ^a   Wirkala, Clarice ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Causal reasoning; Epistemological understanding; Multivariable prediction; Scientific thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149140257     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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